Installing calibre using flatpack does not import either my library or my settings #39
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I have a similar issue. I am not able to add a book from any directory. I get a similar error message:
I don't understand what needs to be done to get it to work. |
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In order to make it work with current calibre flatpak (this will also fix all other flatpaks that bundle their own qt)
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@Erick555 what should work exactly? I can't see my calibre library since it is into ~/Documents/Calibre Library (Italian translation here) |
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The errors messages you posted should be gone. If you have xdg-desktop-portal 1.8.0 or higher then you have to wait until calibre 5.5 to fix opening help/config, etc. |
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Ah ok, the error indeed is gone :) but help button does nothing though. Should we open or reference another issue for this related problems? |
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@anaselli it depends on what version of xdg-desktop-portal do you have installed. If it's below 1.8.0 then please open new issue otherwise please wait for calibre 5.5. |
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rpm -qa | grep xdg-desktop-portal |
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Then this may be unrelated issue. can you confirm if adding books and opening directories work? |
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No, it seems not to work here |
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I don't know then but I tested everything you reported including help and it worked for me. Do you have similar issues with other flatpaks? |
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don't know, i have only spotify and works for what i can say. Maybe i missed some requirements? I'll try to install the official one and see... |
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nope official calibre 3.x works the flatpack one no. |
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I meant if in other flatpaks you can open files/folders from your system. You may try running in background |
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xdg-desktop-portal is under /usr/libexec here. The only output it prints is when i run your command, nothing happens using calibre, should i run it in a special way? Below all the command output: |
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It should print new messages when flatpak is started and file actions are used. Do you have |
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I found that people reported flatpak issues on mageia 7 or older so it's possible you won't be able to make it work witohut updatting to mageia 8: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27126 Even if you update then you need to wait for calibre 5.5 though asi t hits xdg-desktop-portal 1.8 version issue. |
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Well 8 is not released yet, so i'll test in cauldron just to be sure it works later though. |
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Version 5.6 is out. Could you please test and report whether the issue is fixed. Thanks. |
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I can open PDFs and folders from the library view now on the latest Pop_OS. |
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Confirming that calibre 5.6.0 is still does not work under mageia 7. I haven't found the time to testi in mageia 8 though, sorry |
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The mageia bug report mentioned it should be fixed for version 8 onwards. |
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yeah i'm managing to try backporting things but need to see if it is safe enough or have to change too much... |
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Closing as this bug seems downstream specific and should be fixed by updating dependencies. Please re-open if there is nothing actionable here. |
I'm using Mageia Linux and official calibre is still 3.x that now has some problems with my Kobo device, i tried installing new version using flatpack locally:
It started asking for library path where it founds the guide, but no other books that i had in my previous version (and still have there).
Moreover pressing the help button produces no output running from console it prints:
Similar error if i try to open configuration directory from Miscellaneus settings:
Apologize if something is italian, but i was not able to run it in English
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