In this tutorial, we will go through the steps required to install Calibre on NetBSD. Calibre is an ebook management tool that supports various formats such as epub, mobi, pdf, and many more. The steps mentioned here are tested on NetBSD 9.1.
Before we start, ensure that you have the following:
Calibre is not available pre-compiled for NetBSD, but it can be installed from the source. We will be compiling Calibre from source. Below are the steps to install Calibre:
pkgin update
pkgin install python38 py38-sip py38-six py38-pyqt5 py38-cssselect \
py38-lxml py38-dateutil py38-html5lib
cd /usr/local
sudo wget https://download.calibre-ebook.com/5.24.0/calibre-5.24.0.tar.xz
sudo tar -zxvf calibre-5.24.0.tar.xz
cd calibre-5.24.0
sudo python3 setup.py install
calibre
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Calibre on NetBSD. Now you can use it to manage your ebook collection.
Calibre is a powerful ebook management tool that can help you organize and manage your ebook collection. We hope that this tutorial has helped you to install Calibre on NetBSD. If you face any issues or have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below.
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