Comments on: FBReader - e-book reader for Linux desktops

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:40:27 +0000

when i type in “sudo apt-get install libzlui-qt (or sudo apt-get install libzlui-qt4)” i get “bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘” I need this program for school so if some one could help, that would be awesome. thanx

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:45:47 +0000

Hi.
Nice thing. But could You not fill in all the tip about how too download sudo apt-key add, so it is uppdated in the tutorial?

Thanks from
Michael Isleman
Sweden

By: Davoud

Davoud — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:54:06 +0000

@radhey:

after running: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

type in the rest in editor(gedit) not in terminal.

by that you are editing /etc/apt/sources.list file and appending following lines to it:

deb http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian stable main
deb-src http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian stable main

By: radhey

radhey — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:05:06 +0000

I have got the following comment on executing the second line as directed by you( I am new to Ubuntu)

radhey@ubuntu:~$ gksudo gedit/etc/apt/sources.list
radhey@ubuntu:~$ deb http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian stable main
No command ‘deb’ found, did you mean:
Command ‘debc’ from package ‘devscripts’ (main)
Command ‘derb’ from package ‘libicu-dev’ (main)
Command ‘dab’ from package ‘bsdgames’ (universe)
Command ‘debi’ from package ‘devscripts’ (main)
Command ‘xdeb’ from package ‘xdeb’ (universe)
deb: command not found

By: mrhhug

mrhhug — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:25:57 +0000

Jeff Scwhab,

http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/

By: Jeff Schwab

Jeff Schwab — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:39:36 +0000

Hello! Where can I find the source code for FBReader? Either the repository or a tarball would be great. (I’m interested in trying it on OS X.)

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:06:45 +0000

Man,
you can download the key by typping:
wget http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian/geometer.fbreader.org.asc

Regards!!

By: Chad McCullough

Chad McCullough — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:39:14 +0000

@Sam Daniel: You are exactly right. Thanks!

@Barrow: It’s running great on my Ubuntu and Debian laptops. I’m running Fluxbox on both.

By: Smegzor

Smegzor — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:34:15 +0000

You are missing the key file.

Download it from the homepage here

http://www.fbreader.org/desktop

You will find the key where it says “download the key file”, using firefox; right click it and choose ‘save link as’ and save it somewhere you can find it (desktop).

Open a terminal, change to the directory where you saved the key file and run

sudo apt-key add geometer.fbreader.org.asc

Then just follow the rest of the instructions in this tutorial.

By: Barrow

Barrow — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:19:19 +0000

I have a System76 netbook that came with Ubuntu 9.04 installed on it. It also came with FBReader installed. I tried opening an epub book in FBReader. It seemed to display the book OK but then I could never again open FBReader and when I tried using the command line to open FBReader, the response I got was “segmentation fault.” I then tried updating my FBReader program, following instructions on the FBReader site and it completely messed up my netbook. I would advise people to stay as far away from FBReader as possible.

One epub reader that I have found that works well is a Firefox plugin called “epub reader.” If you are looking for an e-book reader that works in Linux, that is the one I would suggest.

By: Sam Daniel

Sam Daniel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:15:27 +0000

@Chad: I think it means that you forgot to download the gpg key into the directory you were in at the time.

By: Chad McCullough

Chad McCullough — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:54:59 +0000

Running sudo apt-key add geometer.fbreader.org.asc to install the gpg key gives me the following error:

gpg: can’t open `geometer.fbreader.org.asc’: No such file or directory

Not sure what is missing?

Thanks!