Comments: Docker - Calibre-web Container Setup with New Calibre Database

[fictionbecomesfact]

Comments for Docker - Calibre-web Container Setup with New Calibre Database

[lucasHabkost]

Hi!

I've deployed the container per the instructions, but when i try to execute the calibre commands inside the container it gives an error:

calibredb restore_database --really-do-it --with-library /books
bash: calibredb: command not found

I can see calibredb listed:

/app/calibre/bin# ls -alh
total 2.0M
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 4.0K Jun 17 00:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Jun 17 01:39 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre-complete
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre-customize
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibredb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre-debug
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre-parallel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre_postinstall
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre-server
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 calibre-smtp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 728K Jun 17 00:37 cjpeg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 ebook-convert
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 ebook-device
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 ebook-edit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 ebook-meta
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 ebook-polish
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 ebook-viewer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 fetch-ebook-metadata
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 595K Jun 17 00:37 jpegtran
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 253K Jun 17 00:37 JxrDecApp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 lrf2lrs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 lrfviewer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 lrs2lrf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 markdown-calibre
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 100K Jun 17 00:37 optipng
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 39K Jun 17 00:37 pdfinfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 96K Jun 17 00:37 pdftohtml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 23K Jun 17 00:37 pdftoppm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 6.2K Jun 17 00:37 web2disk

Any ideas on what I can be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your attention!

[fictionbecomesfact]

@lucasHabkost
Thanks for adding the ls output, this list looks the same as mine, including the permissions. So that should be okay.
Unfortunately I can't reproduce the problem. When I go to /app/calibre/bin in the container then I can run calibredb without error. Does the calibredb command also not work when you run the program without the parameters (ie: restore_database --really-do-it --with-library /books)?

Also make sure the /books mapping exists in the container (so cd /books should work in the container), but given the error message that probably is not the problem.

I also looked at the calibre-web issues but didn't find anything there, but I did come across the suggestion to add a pre-created database, that would be useful.

[lucasHabkost]

Thanks for the reply.

I run calibredb with no parameters and got the same results.
/books is there and I can see its contents.

I've installed a stand alone calibre container and created a db, then mapped the db in calibre-web. It was able to reconize the db.

The problem is that convert to mobi and send to Kindle fails.
I tried pointing to the app/calibre/bin/ebook-convert within the stack and I assume it fails with the same reason (command not found).
I don't know if I can point it to a folder on the new calibre container I deployed (the stand alone one), so still struggling with that.
Any help here is appreciated.

Also, since I'm not a true expert in any of this:
I'm running this on a Rapsberry Pi 4, on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-1011-raspi aarch64).
I assume this aligns with the "DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/calibre-web:calibre" parameter depending on "x86-64 only".
Again, any hints here are appreciated!

Cheers!

[fictionbecomesfact]

Glad you were able to resolve the issue with the db. I'm running calibre-web on an HP microserver (x86-64), so there's a difference. The Rpi4 should get the arm64 image with the (default) latest tag. Optionally, you can also use for example the arm64v8-0.6.18 tag (pull command: linuxserver/calibre-web:arm64v8-0.6.18), but it shouldn't be necessary.

The logs on the host might also be interesting to look at (docker logs calibreweb).

E-book conversion will indeed not work according to the documentation of linuxserver but these comments might help you further: I did a quick read and in summary you can install calibre in the container (apt update && apt install calibre), then edit the path in calibreweb and e-book conversion seems to work. But I would recommend reading the comments, there is a lot more information in it and several solutions are mentioned.

[lucasHabkost]

Hi. I've resolved this manually installing Calibre inside the container.

I'll pressure test this solution, as I'm curious to what will happen when I update the container, or re-deploy it etc.