Calibre's website advises against uses the distribution's package for this reason (It's typically outdated/buggy). And I didn't see any repositories with updated calibre, so apt-get
wasn't looking like the best option.
You can use wget
, though, to download & install the binaries right from Calibre. Calibre's site instructs you to paste the following command into the terminal to install or update:
sudo -v &&
wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py |
sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"
Source: http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
I just did it, and it worked perfectly. And when Calibre tells you there's a new version, you should be able to paste that same thing into the terminal to update. Or you can write a script to do it automatically.
Is there a reason you wanted to stick with apt-get
, other than being familiar with it?