[SOLVED]ebook-viewer from calibre package doesn't work properly

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#1 Post by **caspar** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:31 pm

When I open any * .fb2 file with ebook-viewer program (from the calibre package), I get a program window with all controls, but in the page area there is only a big white "?" on blue background.
Maybe some library is missing?

#2 Post by **caspar** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:50 pm

The problem solved by installing calibre and calibre-bin packages from the debian-backports repository.

#3 Post by **Stevo** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:43 pm

What version did you have installed that had the problems?

#4 Post by **caspar** » Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:29 am

calibre-2.75.1+dfsg-1
upgrade to calibre-3.31.0+dfsg-1~bpo9+1 solved the problem.

#5 Post by **Stevo** » Fri Oct 05, 2018 2:34 pm

Hmmm-we've had 3.31 in the main MX repo since Sept. 8, so I was worried that ours had some issue that the backports didn't. But I'm a bit puzzled as to why it it didn't show up as an upgrade for you...

BTW, it looks like 3.31 is the end of the line for ours and backports native Calibre builds, since 3.32 builds fails on a Stretch base with some kind of Python error. But maybe someone will come up with a workaround for that...otherwise it's going to be portable/static versions if you want the latest releases.

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