How to install Calibre on Linux mint 18.03

To install Calibre on Linux mint 18.03

Calibre is a free e-book computer software application that runs on multiple platforms. It allows users to manage e-book collections and to create, edit, and read e-books. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Calibre on Linux mint 18.03.

Installation

Let's first start with updating the system repositories

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                            
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]                        
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                               
Hit:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                             
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [18.7 kB]                 
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]      
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 359 kB in 1s (206 kB/s)    
Reading package lists... Done

Install the Calibre application run the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install calibre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Recommended packages:
  python-dnspython
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  calibre
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 402 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/22.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 50.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package calibre.
(Reading database ... 222376 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../calibre_2.55.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2_all.deb ...
Unpacking calibre (2.55.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up calibre (2.55.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the Calibre from the Menu as shown here

Calibre application With this, the method to install Calibre on Linux mint 18.03 comes to an end.