How to install the latest Calibre E book reader on Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. Calibre 2.41. the latest version of the Calibre E-book management software can be installed on Linux Ubuntu and Derivatives.
Calibre 2.41 is the latest version of the Calibre E-book Management Software. The latest version of the software (version 2.41) has been released with the following changes.
New Features
- Edit Book: Allow editing an unzipped EPUB (a folder) as a book
Useful if you wish to store your ebook in a version control system and edit it directly with the calibre ebook editor (File->Open folder as book) - Edit Book: Allow easily removing items from the popup menu for the ‘Insert tag’ button
- Make Tag Browser more useable with keyboard shortcuts. Configure the keyboard shortcuts in Preferences->Keyboard->Tag Browser
- ToC editor: Add context menu item to change selected entries to upper case
Bug Fixes
- Edit Book: Preview panel: Render in XHTML mode. Fixes svg elements using a global svg namespace not rendering.
- Tag Browser: Fix clicking on first-letter groups for series not working
- DOCX Output: Ignore corrupted images in the input instead of erroring out on them.
- E-book viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle table of contents not working when ToC window is made floating.
- Allow ebook-metadata to work with read-only files when no options are specified to change metadata.
- Tag mapper: When the replacement tag contains commas, create multiple tags instead of replacing the comma with a semi-colon.
- HTMLZ Output: Set the HTML <title> to the book title.
The Calibre version 2.41 also brings new news/books sources and improved sources:
- Boston Globe
- Wall Street Journal
- Komputerra
- Spectator Magazine
- The Independent
New Features [Detailed Descriptions]
- Icon themes: Change the calibre icons easily via icon themes. You can now change the icons calibre uses easily via Preferences->Look & Feel->Change icon theme.
- Conversion of all ebook formats to Microsoft Word (DOCX) files. Supports conversion of text styles, images, lists, tables, embedded fonts, etc. Produces DOCX files compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer.
- Allow opening ebook files and covers in external applications by simply right clicking on them in the Book Details panel.
- Edit Book: A new reports tool that shows a summary of files, images, words, characters and styles used in the book. Every line in the report is hot-linked, double clicking it jumps to the places in the book where that item is used.
- A new tool to compare ebook files, showing the differences in their underlying text, styles and images side by side.
- A new book editor, capable of editing files in the EPUB and AZW3 (Kindle) formats.
Install Calibre 2.41 on Ubuntu
The Calibre 2.41 can be installed on Ubuntu. Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Calibre on Ubuntu Systems:
$ 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, you can start Calibre via Ubuntu Dash.
