How To Install Calibre 7.24 On Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 And Derivative Systems (Via Flatpak or PPA)

As you may know, Calibre is a free, open-source, powerful and user-friendly eBook management tool created to help users organize, convert and read eBooks, having support for the most popular eBook formats, including: EPUB, MOBI, PDF, AZW3.

The users can also efficiently manage their eBook library by adding metadata, downloading covers and organizing titles into categories.Another amazing thing about Calibre is that it allows you to convert eBooks between different formats, to make them available on various readers.

Also, it can be used to simply read books, stored locally or on a content server, as it has a built-in eBook viewer integrated.Also, the functionality can be extended via various plugins.

The latest version:

The latest version available is Calibre 7.24, which comes with the below changes:

New features

  • Allow creating rules to transform series names in the Bulk metadata editor and Preferences->Metadata download
  • Conversion: Automatically set the page progression direction for books that do not have it set and have their primary language either Arabic or Hebrew
  • Content server: Book details view: Make calibre://show-book and calibre://view-book URLs in the comments work
  • Edit book: Spell check: Add a button to export the currently displayed list of words as a CSV file
  • Add from ISBN: Add a checkbox to automatically convert obsolete ISBN 10 to ISBN 13
  • Save single format to disk: Allow choosing the book cover as the format to save
  • Option to show a button to access all available actions from the status bar in Preferences->Look & feel->Main interface

Bug fixes

  • Read aloud: Fix no audio produced when text contains <3 and using the Windows legacy speech engine
  • Fix Tabbing while editing cells in the book list not always working
  • Windows build: Also sign the portable launcher exes
  • Fix viewing books via the Cover browser not working when in device view

Improved news sources

  • LWN Weekly
  • Outlook India
  • Livemint
How To Install Calibre 7.24 On Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 And Derivative Systems (Via Flatpak or PPA)

How To Install Calibre 7.24 On Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 And Derivative Systems

The latest version of Calibre is available both via Flatpak or via a third party PPA. In this article I will show you both ways of installing Calibre on your Ubuntu system

How To Install Calibre on Ubuntu and derivative systems via PPA:

Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the calibre package. Like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps
sudo apt update
sudo apt install calibre

Optional, to remove calibre, do:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:xtradeb/apps
sudo apt remove calibre

How To Install Calibre on Ubuntu and derivative systems via Flatpak:

Setup Flatpak, if you don’t have it installed and configured already:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Install Calibre:

flatpak install flathub com.calibre_ebook.calibre

Optional, to remove calibre, do:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.calibre_ebook.calibre
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