Unable to Install Calibre after fresh (new) Ubuntu 24.04 install, Solution


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Background

Rather than upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 after many years of doing nothing but upgrades, I decided that a new, or fresh, full install might be a good idea. It was, overall, with very few glitches. One of those glitches was installing one of my favorite (and crucial to my work) applications: Calibre.

What I Did

I boogied over to the Calibre website and copied the code for the binary install, same as I had done for several years to both install Calibre originally, then to do version upgrades.

What Happened

When I opened a Terminal and pasted in the Install code, I got this result: You are missing the system library libxcb-cursor.so.0. Try installing packages such as libxcb-cursor0 or xcb-cursor

What I Did Next

In the terminal, I entered: sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0 which successfully installed that package.

Next, I went to the Calibre Download Linux page  and copied and pasted the install code below into the Terminal: 
sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin

Result:

Calibre is installed, all is well. From here on out, new versions should be able to be installed simply by going to the Calibre site, copying the Install code, and pasting into the terminal. This process will install the new version, while preserving all your data and settings. 

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