Calibre is an open-source e-book library management application that allows you to organize, edit, and manage your digital book collection. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Calibre on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we can install Calibre on Alpine Linux, we need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
The first step in installing Calibre is to install the dependencies required by the application. We can do this by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apk add musl-dev gcc python3-dev libxslt-dev sqlite-dev jpeg-dev py3-six py3-setuptools zlib-dev
This command installs the required dependencies for building and running Calibre on Alpine Linux.
The next step is to download the Calibre package for Alpine Linux. We can do this by visiting the Calibre website at https://calibre-ebook.com/ and downloading the appropriate package for Alpine Linux.
wget -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin install_dir=/opt
This command will download and install the Calibre package in the /opt directory on your system.
After Calibre has been installed, we need to configure it to work properly. We can do this by running the following command:
/opt/calibre/calibre-server --with-library=/path/to/library --daemonize
Replace /path/to/library with the path where you want to store your Calibre library.
Now that Calibre has been installed and configured, we can access its web interface by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080. From there, you can start managing your e-books with Calibre.
Calibre is a powerful, open-source application for managing digital book collections. By following the steps outlined in this tutorial, you should now have Calibre up and running on Alpine Linux Latest.
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