How to update Calibre – install Calibre on Ubuntu, via PPA. Install Calibre 2.54 on Ubuntu 16.04, 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 2.54
Calibre 2.54 is the latest version available. Calibre 2.49 has been released with the following changes.
New Features
- Edit metadata in bulk dialog: Allow configuring the types of generated covers.
- E-book viewer: Make the detection of note boundaries for popup footnotes a little more robust
- E-book viewer: Add options to control the amount the mouse wheel and arrow keys scroll by in flow mode
- When running the content server do not hide the main calibre window during shutdown until the content server has stopped. Show a shutting down message in the window so that the user knows what is happening.
- Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for empty links
- DOCX Input: When the document has a Table of Contents created using the Word Table of Contents tool, keep a reference to it in the metadata. This is useful when converting to old style MOBI and you want to precisely control placement of the ToC.
Bug Fixes
- Fix auto-mounting of some types of devices not working on FreeBSD
- calibredb add: Fix the –cover option not working if the book being added has its own cover.
- E-book viewer: Fix mathematics being typeset at too small a font size on windows
- PDF Output: Fix occasional blank pages erroneously inserted in the text (at the end of an internal html file).
- Book details panel: Fix url:file:// identifiers not becoming links
- Fix fetch news dialog not rendering properly on HiDPI screens
- Fix a hard to trigger crash introduced in the previous release when using the conversion dialog
Install Calibre 2.54
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Calibre 2.54 on Ubuntu 16.04, 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
You can also install Calibre 2.54 using the following command:
$ 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 Terminal. Run “calibre” to start calibre.
If you wish to uninstall Calibre, run the command given below:
$ sudo /usr/bin/calibre-uninstall