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Would it be possible to install Calibre and use the Calibre content server to serve ebooks from a PythonAnywhere hosted webapp?

(Mainly for personal use, possibly for friends).

For reference: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

Thanks!

We're looking into it; it looks like Calibre is a bit of a pain to install (apparently the standard Ubuntu packages tend to be very out-of-date, so we'd need to install from source) but it's on the list of things to try adding in our next system image. No promises, but I've made a note that you've asked for it, so that bumps the priority a bit :-)

Great!

Can you tell me approximately how long you plan to release the next system image?

We're planning a new system image in the next release, which hopefully will be within a month or so -- but as I said, I can't guarantee that Calibre will be in it.

OK, thanks!

Any news in regards of this?

We tried to add Calibre, but it seems to be uncompatible to our system.

Any updates? I've tried running ebook-convert, but it seams that calibre is still missing. And of course I cannot run sudo apt-get install calibre... :/

Our reply from February is still true -- we tried to install Calibre, but it doesn't work on PythonAnywhere.