Calibre

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Calibre is an electronic book management tool.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for app-text/calibre Ebook management application

+font-subsetting Enable font subsetting support
+system-mathjax Use a system copy of mathjax
+udisks Enable storage management support (automounting, volume monitoring, etc)
ios Enable support for Apple's iDevice with iOS operating system (iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc)
speech Enable text-to-speech support
test Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
unrar Enable support for comic books compressed with the non-free Rar format
verify-sig Verify upstream signatures on distfiles

Emerge

root #emerge --ask app-text/calibre

Troubleshooting

Unable to obtain/generate cover art

Calibre requires dev-qt/qtgui to have jpeg support for cover art. See bug #676664

FILE /etc/portage/package.use/calibre
dev-qt/qtgui jpeg
root #emerge --ask --oneshot dev-qt/qtgui

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose app-text/calibre

See also

External resources