How To Install lrf2lrs on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install calibre

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install calibre

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is lrf2lrs and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install lrf2lrs on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install lrf2lrs on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install lrf2lrs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install calibre

Install lrf2lrs on CentOS 8 using yum

Because lrf2lrs is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install lrf2lrs package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install calibre

How to upgrade (update) a single package lrf2lrs using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like lrf2lrs in this example you should use the following command:

yum update calibre

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade calibre

How to Upgrade lrf2lrs on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update calibre

How To remove lrf2lrs from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the lrf2lrs package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove calibre

Extra info and code examples

Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution. It includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion as well as e-book reader sync features. Calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to e-books in several formats. It also supports conversion from a dozen different e-book formats to LRF and EPUB. A graphical interface to the conversion software can be accessed easily by just clicking the "Convert E-books" button. Supported input formats are: MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, ODT, HTML, CBR, CBZ, RTF, TXT, PDF and LRS. Calibre has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for the SONY PRS 500/505/700 and the iPhone (with the stanza reader software). Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the library and the creation of collections on the device based on the tags defined in the library view. If an book has more than one format available, calibre automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device. Calibre can automatically fetch news from a number of websites/RSS feeds, format the news into a e-book and upload to a connected device. There is support for generating LRF/EPUB e-books. The e-books include the *full* versions of the articles, not just the summaries. Calibre has also a built-in e-book viewer that can display all the major e-book formats.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install lrf2lrs using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the lrf2lrs from CentOS 8.

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