How To Install calibre on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install calibre
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is calibre
calibre is:
Calibre is a complete e-library solution. It includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, e-book viewer and editor, and e-book reader sync features.
Calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to e-books in several formats. It also supports conversion to and from a dozen different e-book formats.
Calibre supports almost every single e-Reader (e.g., Kindle, Kobo, Nook) and is compatible with more devices with every update. Calibre can transfer your e-books from one device to another in seconds, wirelessly or with a cable. It will send the best file format for your device converting it if needed, automatically.
Calibre can automatically fetch news from a number of websites/RSS feeds, format the news into a e-book and upload to a connected device.
Calibre has also a built-in e-book viewer that can display all the major e-book formats. Task: ubuntustudio-publishing
Package: calibre Architecture: all Version: 4.99.4+dfsg+really4.12.0-1build1 Priority: extra Section: universe/text Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Norbert Preining [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 52180 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.14) Depends: calibre-bin (>= 4.99.4+dfsg+really4.12.0-1build1), fonts-liberation, imagemagick, libjpeg-turbo-progs, libjs-mathjax, libjxr-tools, optipng, poppler-utils, python3, python3-apsw, python3-bs4, python3-chardet, python3-chm, python3-css-parser, python3-cssselect, python3-cssutils, python3-dateutil, python3-dbus, python3-feedparser, python3-html2text, python3-html5-parser, python3-html5lib, python3-lxml, python3-markdown, python3-mechanize, python3-msgpack, python3-netifaces, python3-pil, python3-pkg-resources, python3-pygments, python3-pyparsing, python3-pyqt5 (>= 5.14.1+dfsg-3build1), python3-pyqt5.qtsvg, python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine (>= 5.12.1-4+b1), python3-regex, python3-routes, python3-zeroconf, xdg-utils Recommends: python3-dnspython (>= 1.6.0), udisks2 Suggests: python3-openssl, python3-unrardll Filename: pool/universe/c/calibre/calibre_4.99.4+dfsg+really4.12.0-1build1_all.deb Size: 23901016 MD5sum: c1d0dc83823c5b86eb54fe7405051c2a SHA1: 1a88336b7f5fb4908c6733f94775a29946b8e919 SHA256: 9904db246d19f424fb3c3a6b010bbc8561900e6cbce8eec41e132b5b7cc12f1f Homepage: https://calibre-ebook.com Description-en: powerful and easy to use e-book manager Calibre is a complete e-library solution. It includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, e-book viewer and editor, and e-book reader sync features.
Calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to e-books in several formats. It also supports conversion to and from a dozen different e-book formats.
Calibre supports almost every single e-Reader (e.g., Kindle, Kobo, Nook) and is compatible with more devices with every update. Calibre can transfer your e-books from one device to another in seconds, wirelessly or with a cable. It will send the best file format for your device converting it if needed, automatically.
Calibre can automatically fetch news from a number of websites/RSS feeds, format the news into a e-book and upload to a connected device.
Calibre has also a built-in e-book viewer that can display all the major e-book formats. Task: ubuntustudio-publishing
There are three methods to install calibre
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install calibre Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install calibre
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install calibre
Install calibre Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install calibre
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install calibre
Install calibre Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install calibre
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install calibre
How To Uninstall calibre on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the calibre
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove calibre
Uninstall calibre And Its Dependencies
To uninstall calibre
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove calibre
Remove calibre Configurations and Data
To remove calibre
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge calibre
Remove calibre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove calibre
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge calibre
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install calibre
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.