SOLVED Manual installation of Calibre - no calibre library found

danb35 · May 6, 2019

I'm trying to get Calibre running in a jail, and running into an unexpected problem. I used an existing jail, adding mountpoints for /calibre_config and /media/books. I installed calibre using pkg install calibre, which ran without errors (though installed lots of dependencies). I set the following sysrc variables:

Code:

calibre_enable="YES"
calibre_port="8082"
calibre_user="media"
calibre_group="media"
calibre_library="/media/books"
calibre_home="/calibre_config"

/media/books and /calibre_config are owned by media:media. But when I try to start calibre, I get this:

Code:

root@downloaders:~ # service calibre start
Starting calibre.
There is no calibre library at: /media/books
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/calibre: WARNING: failed to start calibre

...and I'm not seeing any way to tell it to create one. Any thoughts?

garm · May 6, 2019

Looks like you need to set up the db manually first?
https://www.digitalocean.com/commun...create-a-calibre-ebook-server-on-ubuntu-14-04

danb35 · May 6, 2019

That was it, thanks--though I have no idea why that guide is talking about using xvfb... So for posterity, here's what I did to finish it up:

Code:

mkdir /media/books/toadd
fetch -o /media/books/toadd/pride.mobi http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.kindle.noimages
fetch -o christmascarol.mobi http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46.kindle.noimages
calibredb add /media/books/toadd/* --library-path /media/books/
chown -R media:media /media/books
service calibre start

Then browse to jailip:8082 and there it is. Now to get it working behind my Caddy proxy.

ByteNick · May 10, 2019

Now the challenge is to install calibre-web:
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

ByteNick · May 11, 2019

@danb35 Have you managed to make it work with Caddy?

gt2416 · May 11, 2019

Calibre-web wasn't that hard to install. Git clone it to somewhere like /usr/local
Inside the calibre-web directory run

Code:

pip install --target vendor -r requirements.txt

And start it with

Code:

python2.7 /usr/local/calibre-web/cps.py

You have to install python 2.7 if you haven't already.
To autostart I lazily edited crontab and added

Code:

@reboot python2.7 /usr/local/calibre-web/cps.py

to it.
Works well though !

ByteNick · May 12, 2019

I installed it allright. The complete installation procedure requires some more pip installs', depending what you want to do with it.
Now, I want to make it a service, and I was trying to write a rc.d file. I wrote the one bellow, but it doesn't want to start alone:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# File name is calibre-web
# Place this file into /etc/rc.d
# Edit /etc/rc.conf to include calibre_enable=YES
# By default calibre-web runs using root,
# if you want to run calibre-web as another user,
# include calibre_user=username to /etc/rc.conf

# PROVIDE: calibre-web
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name=calibre-web
rcvar=calibre_enable

pid="pgrep calibre-web"
PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"

start_cmd="${name}_start"
stop_cmd="${name}_stop"

load_rc_config $name
: ${calibre_enable:=NO}
: ${calibre_user:=root}

calibre-web_start()
{
    if ${pid} >/dev/null
    then
        echo "${name} is already running"
    else
        echo "Starting ${name}"
        python /usr/local/share/calibre-web/cps.py
    fi
}


calibre-web_stop()
{
    if ${pid} >/dev/null
    then
        echo "Stopping ${name}"
        kill $(${pid})
        sleep 1
    else
        echo "${name} is not running"
    fi
}

run_rc_command "$1"

Ii starts, but the server is not responsive. I don't know what is the error.

If I go in the jail, in /usr/local/share/calibre-web and start cps.py, it works.

ANy idea what I am doing wrong?

NB: I had to edit the name above form "calibre-web" to "calibre" because apparently it does not like the "-" in the name

gt2416 · May 12, 2019

I think it doesnt work because calibre is already used for the calibre service. Using an underscore instead of a - works.
Also pid code doesn't work because stopping the service doesn't work and you can try to start it multiple times. Heres a modified version of your script.
Note my calibre web is installed in a different directory so you may have to edit that line.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
# File name is calibre-web
# Place this file into /etc/rc.d
# Edit /etc/rc.conf to include calibre_enable=YES
# By default calibre-web runs using root,
# if you want to run calibre-web as another user,
# include calibre_user=username to /etc/rc.conf

# PROVIDE: calibre_web
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name=calibre_web
rcvar=calibre_web_enable

pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
command="python2.7 /usr/local/calibre-web/cps.py"

start_cmd="${name}_start"
stop_cmd="${name}_stop"

load_rc_config $name
: ${calibre_web_enable:=NO}
: ${calibre_web_user:=root}

calibre_web_start()
{
    if [ -e ${pidfile} ];
    then
        echo "${name} is already running"
    else
        echo "Starting ${name}"
        /usr/sbin/daemon -p ${pidfile} ${command}
    fi
}


calibre_web_stop()
{
    if [ -e ${pidfile} ];
    then
        echo "Stopping ${name}"
        kill `cat ${pidfile}`;
        sleep 1
         else
        echo "${name} is not running"
    fi
}

run_rc_command "$1"

ByteNick · May 12, 2019

Please note that calibre and calibre-web are in different jails. It is the way I always chose to install, so I can reinstall one, without affecting the other.
I will look into it and post the results.

ByteNick · May 12, 2019

I suppose the rc.d filename should be calibre_web, right?

danb35 · May 12, 2019

ByteNick said:
I suppose the rc.d filename should be calibre_web, right?

Yes, I'd think so.

ByteNick · May 12, 2019

I did a couple of installs, same results:

Code:

root@calibre-web:/usr/local/share/calibre-web # service calibre_web start
Starting calibre_web
root@calibre-web:/usr/local/share/calibre-web # [2019-05-13 00:02:14,777] INFO in web: Starting Calibre Web...
[2019-05-13 00:02:15,079] INFO in server: Starting Gevent server

And then it stalls...

Strangely, If I start it manually, it works:

Code:

root@calibre-web:/usr/local/share/calibre-web # python cps.py
[2019-05-13 00:00:10,200] INFO in web: Starting Calibre Web...
[2019-05-13 00:00:10,534] INFO in server: Starting Gevent server
[2019-05-13 00:00:10,535] INFO in server: Unable to listen on '', trying on IPv4 only...

The contents of my file is:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#!/usr/bin/env python3.6
# File name is calibre_web
# Place this file into /usr/local/etc/rc.d
# Edit /etc/rc.conf to include calibre_web_enable=YES
# By default calibre_web runs using root,
# if you want to run calibre-web as another user,
# include calibre_web_user=username to /etc/rc.conf

# PROVIDE: calibre_web
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name=calibre_web
rcvar=calibre_web_enable

pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
command="python3.6 /usr/local/share/calibre-web/cps.py"

start_cmd="${name}_start"
stop_cmd="${name}_stop"

load_rc_config $name
: ${calibre_web_enable:=NO}
: ${calibre_web_user:=root}

calibre_web_start()
{
    if [ -e ${pidfile} ];
    then
        echo "${name} is already running"
    else
        echo "Starting ${name}"
        /usr/sbin/daemon -p ${pidfile} ${command}
    fi
}


calibre_web_stop()
{
    if [ -e ${pidfile} ];
    then
        echo "Stopping ${name}"
        kill `cat ${pidfile}`;
        sleep 1
         else
        echo "${name} is not running"
    fi
}

run_rc_command "$1"

gt2416 · May 13, 2019

Honestly no idea, I tried in another jail using python3.6 and it works :/
The only difference I can tell is that my calibre-web uses tornado server and not Gevent, but idk why its different from yours.

Code:

 [2019-05-13 11:02:35,237] INFO in web: Starting Calibre Web...
[2019-05-13 11:02:35,975] INFO in server: Starting Tornado server

catnas · Dec 27, 2019

Which version of Calibre did you try? I'm trying to build Calibre 4 from ports and it is being a huge pain in the ass.

fahadshery · Dec 27, 2020

Hi All,

I tried installing the community plugin but I think its a dead project. Can anyone be kind enough to post step by step guidance to install this manually? or if @danb35 has created any install script already?

thanks

danb35 · Dec 27, 2020

No, I don't have a script for this, and am not using it. Too many obstacles, too little documentation.

fahadshery · Dec 29, 2020

Hi @danb35,

Have you had the chance to look at this? What do you make of it?

thanks

gt2416 · Dec 29, 2020

I cant find calibre on pkg or on ports, is it called something else? Although it does exist on Freshports but I cant install it. https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/calibre

fahadshery · Dec 30, 2020

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fahadshery · Dec 30, 2020

gt2416 said:
I cant find calibre on pkg or on ports, is it called something else? Although it does exist on Freshports but I cant install it. https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/calibre

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