Test/Document Calibre 3.39.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9.8 + Calibre 3.35 -> 3.39.1 on Raspbian

[holta]

.debs for Calibre 3.39.1 will be available for Raspbian here, within ~10 days presumably:

http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/calibre/
http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/calibre/

See Calibre 3.39.1 released 2019-02-01:

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

Ref: #1413 for Calibre 3.38.1

[holta]

fyi Calibre 3.35's 2 .deb files were backed up here for safekeeping:
http://d.iiab.io/packages

(noting that .deb files for RPi have not been released in almost 2 months now!)

[holta]

FYI Calibre was removed from BIG-sized local_vars.yml around autumn of 2018, and that appears to have been a wise move. To be clear:

1. Calibre can still be installed, and is loved by several proactive teachers who use it in very creative ways to manage/curate books cultivating great literary kids.
2. However Calibre's "dependency hell" seems increasingly likely to be the reason for problems in repeat runs of Ansible ("./iiab-install --reinstall") in places like the 'pbx' playbook especially (for Asterisk & FreePBX).

So I'm moving this lingering issue to the IIAB 7.0 target hoping for further refinement, allowing that more polished product to be released in Q2 2019.

[holta]

3.39.1 .debs for Raspbian are now available:
http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/calibre/
http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/calibre/

Testing is ongoing...

[holta]

@jvonau these have been backed up to http://d.iiab.io/packages just in case:

• http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/calibre/calibre-bin_3.39.1+dfsg-2_armhf.deb
• http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/calibre/calibre_3.39.1+dfsg-2_all.deb

Great news Calibre 3.39.1 installs cleanly on BOTH Raspbian Lite & Desktop — of course /etc/iiab/local_vars.yml first needs calibre_install/calibre_enabled set to True/True on lines 279-280 typically: https://github.com/iiab/iiab/blob/master/vars/local_vars_medium.yml#L279-L280

(Naturally Calibre's install takes about 30MIN on Raspbian Lite — whereas it only takes about 10MIN on Raspbian Desktop, which already contains many of the needed dependencies as a result of Calibre 2.75.1 being pre-included.)