[SOLVED] calibre not starting on Slacksare64 current

smitchel1099 · 07-30-2018, 06:49 PM

I am running Slackware64 and my system is up to date.
When running calibre in a terminal, I get the following error message:

Code:

steve@dataman ~ $ calibre
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 19, in <module>
    from calibre.gui_launch import calibre
  File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
    from calibre.startup import winutil, winutilerror
  File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/startup.py", line 151, in <module>
    from calibre.utils.icu import title_case, lower as icu_lower, upper as icu_upper
  File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/utils/icu.py", line 28, in <module>
    raise RuntimeError('Failed to load icu with error: %s' % err)
RuntimeError: Failed to load icu with error: libicudata.so.56: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/ptempfile.py:29: RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'calibre' not found while handling absolute import
  import shutil
steve@dataman ~ $

This is what I think I have installed:

Code:

ls /var/log/packages/calibre*
/var/log/packages/calibre-3.7.0-x86_64-1alien

Does this look like a dependency problem? If so, how can I tell that? Do I find a list of dependencies somewhere or something?
I appreciate if someone can help with some clues of where to head to solve this.

Gordie · 07-30-2018, 07:50 PM

A good place to start can be here.
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...search=calibre
or here.
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac..._64-2alien.dep
Of course some of the dependencies may have dependencies of their own ...

andrew.46 · 07-30-2018, 10:15 PM

I am also running 64bit slackware current and calibre; no problems loading here. But I see you are using alienBob's package while I am simply using a binary repackaging slackbuild for calibre courtesy of dugan. This might get you out of trouble short term at least...

bassmadrigal · 07-31-2018, 12:02 AM

It is complaining about missing libicudata.so.56, which is an old version of icu4c. -current is on v61.

And it looks like you're using an old version of calibre. Per Eric's changelog, this was built back in 2017, and there's been a few icu4c updates to -current since then that would break it. He's had 7 newer versions since he made 3.7.0 availble.

Code:

+--------------------------+
Tue Sep 12 13:55:02 UTC 2017
calibre: updated to 3.7.0 for Slackware 14.2 and -current.
  - on 14.2: needs libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon, podofo, qt5,
    qt5-webkit and unrar.
  - on current: needs libxkbcommon, podofo, qt5, qt5-webkit and unrar.

If you run into problems, you should always check to see if you have the latest version. In this case, Eric has 3.23.0 available, and that will likely fix your problem. Make sure you check the .meta files as that will contain any required dependencies for his packages. In this case, it requires:

Code:

PyQt5,libinput,libxkbcommon,libwacom,podofo,qt5,qt5-webkit,unrar

RadicalDreamer · 07-31-2018, 03:11 AM

An option to get most of those packages is to use http://www.slakfinder.org/slackpkg+.html
and alienbob repository: http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/src/repositories.txt

smitchel1099 · 08-01-2018, 02:24 PM

Thank you.

I went looking for a list of dependencies on Calibre's website, and found that they do not recommend using the versions that come with different distributions. In stead, they say to download it directly from their website since the download is self-inclusive, i.e. containing all the dependencies as well as the program.

I did download and install that from their website, and everything is working fine now.

Thank you for helping me see the steps I missed, in making sure I had current versions of everything. I had not done that thoroughly.