Calibre Web is an open source web application that provides a user interface for managing a Calibre e-book library. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Calibre Web on Clear Linux Latest.
To install Calibre Web, you will need the following pre-requisites installed on your Clear Linux Latest system:
You can install them using the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add python-basic git
Calibre Web is an open source project hosted on Github. To install it, we need to clone the repository on our Clear Linux Latest system.
Run the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web.git
Before we start the installation process, we need to set up some configurations in Calibre Web.
Copy the default configuration file:
cp config/app.json.dist config/app.json
Edit the config/app.json file and update the following details:
"HOST": "0.0.0.0"
"PORT": 8080
Note: You can change the port number according to your requirement.
Set up the database:
python3 manage.py createdb
Calibre Web requires some Python libraries to run properly. To install them, run the following command:
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt
Finally, we are ready to start Calibre Web. Run the following command:
python3 cps.py
Open your favorite web browser and go to http://localhost:8080. You should see the Calibre Web dashboard.
Calibre Web is an excellent web-based interface for managing your e-books collection. With this tutorial, you should now be able to install and run Calibre Web on Clear Linux Latest.
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