How to update Calibre – install Calibre on Ubuntu, via PPA. Install Calibre 2.53 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems.Calibre is a popular ebook reader which is also a powerful e-book management software. Calibre has many powerful features. Best of all, Calibre comes with an inbuilt e-book conversion feature. Calibre supports all the popular eBook formats such as epub, cbz, mobi, fb2 and others.
calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:
- Library Management
- E-book conversion
- Syncing to e-book reader devices
- Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
- Comprehensive e-book viewer
- Content server for online access to your book collection
- E-book editor for the major e-book formats
Calibre is an ebook library manager. It can view, convert and catalog ebooks in most of the major ebook formats. It can also talk to many ebook reader devices. It can go out to the Internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into ebooks for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X.
Calibre 2.53
Calibre 2.53 is the latest version available. Calibre 2.49 has been released with the following changes.
New Features:
- Edit Book: A new tool to transform book styling using easy to create rules.
- Conversion: Allow creating rules to transform styles during conversion, as above. Available in the conversion dialog at ‘Look & Feel->Transform style’
- Edit metadata dialog: Make the hide toolbars right click menu action persistent. Also fix very large number of custom fields causing the basic metadata tab to not be aligned properly
- Portable Installer: Do not ask to launch calibre when running an automated install. Automated installs will now never launch calibre.
Bug Fixes:
- E-book viewer: Hide list numbers for popup footnotes when the footnotes are use as the number are likely to be incorrect.
- DOCX Input: Ignore the hidden bookmark Word 2010 inserts to enable the go to last edit feature.
- Fix keyboard focus lost after merging book records
- Edit Book: Fix spelling correction suggestions not being shown when using the context menu key with the cursor at the end of the word
Install Calibre 2.53
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Calibre 2.53 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu Derivatives Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install calibre
If the above command doesn’t works, run the following commands:
$ sudo -v && wget --no-check-certificate -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"
Once installed, open the Calibre ebook reader from Ubuntu Dash or Menu.
If you wish to uninstall Calibre, run the command given below:
$ sudo /usr/bin/calibre-uninstall