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How do I run parts of calibre like news download and the content server on my own linux server? How do I run parts of calibre like news download and the content server on my own linux server?
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First, you must install calibre onto your linux server. If your server is using a modern linux distro, you should have no problems installing calibre onto it. First, you must install calibre onto your linux server. If your server is using
a modern linux distro, you should have no problems installing calibre onto it
.. note:: (calibre needs GLIBC >= 2.13 and libstdc++ >= 6.0.17). If you have an older
If you bought into the notion that a real server must run a decade old version of Debian, then you will have to jump through a few hoops. First, compile a newer version of glibc (>= 2.10) on your server from source. Then get the calibre linux binary tarball from the calibre google code page for your server architecture. Extract it into :file:`/opt/calibre`. Put your previously compiled glibc into :file:`/opt/calibre` as :file:`libc.so.6`. You can now run the calibre binaries from :file:`/opt/calibre`. server, you will either need to compile these from source, or use calibre 1.48
which requires only GLIBC >= 2.10.
You can run the calibre server via the command:: You can run the calibre server via the command::
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Remember to read the command line documentation section of the calibre User Manual to learn more about these, and other commands. Remember to read the command line documentation section of the calibre User Manual to learn more about these, and other commands.
.. note:: Some parts of calibre require a X server. If you're lucky, nothing you do will fall into this category, if not, you will have to look into using xvfb.