Calibre is free and open source e-book library management software developed by Kovid Goyal. It is available for different operating systems including OpenBSD. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Calibre on OpenBSD.
Calibre is not available in the OpenBSD package repository. Therefore, we need to download and install it manually. Go to the official Calibre website to download the package.
wget https://download.calibre-ebook.com/5.26.1/calibre-5.26.1-x86_64.txz
This command will download Calibre version 5.26.1. You should check the official website for the latest version before downloading.
After downloading the package, extract the tar file using the following command.
sudo tar -xf calibre-5.26.1-x86_64.txz -C /usr/local/
This command will extract the Calibre package to the /usr/local/ directory.
Once the extraction of the package is complete, we need to create a symlink to the binary file. This will allow you to execute Calibre from anywhere on the system. Use the following command to create a symlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/calibre/calibre /usr/local/bin/calibre
After the symlink creation, you can now run Calibre from any directory using the following command:
calibre
This command will launch the Calibre GUI. Alternatively, you can also run Calibre in the background using the following command:
calibre-server
This command will start the Calibre server and serve its web interface from http://localhost:8080.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Calibre on your OpenBSD server. You can now start managing and organizing your e-book library.
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