Greetings all;

First the Specks;

Gnome Desktop

Debian
Release Kali Linux 1.0.7 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.14-kali1-amd64
GNOME 3.4.2

Hardware
Memory: 3.5 GiB
Processor: AMD E-450 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics x 2

System Status
Available disk space 51.2 GiB

And the Problem
I installed calibri using the command line from the calibri linux web page and it worked without a bobble.

The command Line was;

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ko...x-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"

Well it worked fine for a time and then ALL the news feeds started to return the error code

Failed feed: NewsFeed (Anandtech)

<urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

From all the news sites

calibre, version 0.8.51
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Fetch news from TechCrunch

Fetch news from TechCrunch
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.8.51
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'original',
'chapter': None,
'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_download_recipe': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': True,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'epub_flatten': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': None,
'fix_indents': True,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x24639d0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'lrf': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_svg_cover': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.GenericEink object at 0x2463dd0>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'password': None,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': '',
'search_replace': None,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': '',
'sr1_search': '',
'sr2_replace': '',
'sr2_search': '',
'sr3_replace': '',
'sr3_search': '',
'tags': None,
'test': False,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'username': None,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using proxies: {'http': 'localhost:4001 '}
Failed feed: News
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1434, in parse_feeds
with closing(self.browser.open(url)) as f:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 203, in open
return self._mech_open(url, data, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
response = UserAgentBase.open(self, request, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open
response = urlopen(self, req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1142, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/calibre-parallel", line 19, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 191, in main
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
plumber.run()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 972, in run
accelerators, tdir)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 208, in __call__
log, accelerators)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 105, in convert
ro.download()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 861, in download
res = self.build_index()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1013, in build_index
raise ValueError('No articles found, aborting')
ValueError: No articles found, aborting

Well there is the error report. I have tryed to uninstall calibre using 2 package managers as well as

apt-get --purge remove calibre
apt-get clean

and then a reinstall

So: Any suggestions?

Have you tried install calibre using this command?
That same command should install calibre-bin at the same time. Install it manually if it doesn't.
jdk

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Yep: that is the reinstall part of what I did. My problem is JUST with the news retreval system of calibre. I think that some dependent program got messed up or a flag was set the wrong way. Which could be just a singal bit. I have been doing further research and it might be the "getlive" program that seem to do something with news retreaval. Research continues apace.

Ok, I see. I have never used that feature (retrieving news in epub format) so I have zero experience with it. At some point I could no longer download and install updated versions from the Calibre website so I switched to doing it the package way. There was some security package that I didn't have installed that bothered Calibre.
jdk

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Do you happen to know the file/files where calibre stores it's settings? When I remove it there is some file left behind because when it is reinstalled It knows where the last library it worked with and what news letters it is suppost to download are. (And the library is on a second drive so I KNOW that it is not the default setting. So it has a file remembering from one install to the next the default information that I programmed into it when I set it up the first time. If I am able to destroy the default files when I remove the program; Then when I reinstall it should ask me for all the basics and setup the file that tells it what to do each time. But I need to delete that default file. And I am not quite good enough with Linux to be able to do that. I found that the program itself is stored in the opt/calibre directory and I am tempted to just wipe out the calibre Dir manually and then do a reinstall but I have no idea if any other programs relay on any file that is stored here and so am hesitant to just kill them all and let god sort them out because with my luck I would get rid of everything but the problem.

If you do a purge remove, it will delete everything except stuff in /home.
You should find a load of stuff in ~/.config/calibre/