Calibre install problem

[ortloffa]

I use slacko puppy 5.5 and installed calibre and its dependencies using
I installed calibre-0.8.64 using puppy package manager. there were alot of dependencies. it wouldnt start looked to be a problem with pil-1.1.7 even though the packages seemed to be installed. I reinstalled pil-1,1,7 and calibre started! but when I try to create a book from a news source I get this: (at the end you see the error message.) what to do?

Creating MOBI Output...
Serializing resources...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/calibre-parallel", line 20, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 192, in main
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
plumber.run()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1116, in run
self.opts, self.log)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_output.py", line 179, in convert
add_fonts=create_kf8)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer2/resources.py", line 37, in __init__
self.add_resources(add_fonts)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer2/resources.py", line 59, in add_resources
data = generate_masthead(unicode(self.oeb.metadata['title'][0]))
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/__init__.py", line 264, in generate_masthead
font = ImageFont.truetype(default_font, 48, encoding='unic')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 218, in truetype
return FreeTypeFont(filename, size, index, encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 134, in __init__
self.font = core.getfont(file, size, index, encoding)
IOError: cannot open resource

[tlchost]

I installed calibre-0.8.64 using puppy package manager. there were alot of dependencies.

Calibre changes very often...I've found it very easy to extract the files to
/mnt/home and run it from there(Slack05.5, Raring)

If copy move the CalibreLibrary out of /root and place it in mnt/home it will save a lot of space.

Use the above method you do not need dpendencies, etc., as Calibre is complete, ready to run.

Thom

[ortloffa]

thanks! that worked.

[tlchost]

thanks! that worked.

Great! If you try that "triuck" on other apps, post about it....might be of help to others.

Thom