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I'm having trouble installing libunrar.so. It's required for Calibre to convert CBR files.

Anyone an idea on where to get it (package or source)?

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download calibre

http://sourceforge.net/projects/calibre/files/

select your system :

64 bits : calibre-x.x.xx-x86_64.tar.bz2

32 bits : calibre-x.x.xx-i686.tar.bz2

extract that file and find libunrar.so in the main directory

copy libunrar.so into "/usr/lib" folder

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Put libunrar.so in /usr/local/lib, not in /usr/lib. Never touch anything under /usr outside /usr/local without going through the package manager. Also, run sudo ldconfig after you've installed a .so manually. – Gilles Oct 17 '10 at 17:52
@Gilles, i think is not necesary execute ldconfig in this case because only use (/lib and /usr/lib) man ldconfig and you are using /usr/local/lib – hhlp Oct 17 '10 at 18:14
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My PPA contains a libunrar package, if you don't feel like messing around with a manual install.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bodiltv/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calibre

(or just libunrar : sudo apt-get install libunrar)

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you can grab the libunrar.so file from the latest files here http://sourceforge.net/projects/calibre/files/ , make sure to get the right architecture for your system. i got calibre-0.7.23-x86_64.tar.bz2 myself because i have a 64-bit system.

you can then put that libunrar.so file in /usr/lib and hopefully it should work okay

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Put libunrar.so in /usr/local/lib, not in /usr/lib. Never touch anything under /usr outside /usr/local without going through the package manager. Also, run sudo ldconfig after you've installed a .so manually. – Gilles Oct 17 '10 at 17:53

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