Comment 8 for bug 1884525

Hi there,

I don't think this bug is a duplicate of bug #1898904. Here the error is NOT "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'cancel'" BUT "PyCapsule_GetPointer called with incorrect name".

I upgraded my Linux Mint 20 this morning & got the error in this bug not the other one.

The bug is there since 06/2020 & we are 12/2020. Does this means that Calibre is not usable for all Ubuntu (&derivates) uses for ~6 months?!? I find it strange... If it would be the case, this bug would have received a LOT more votes/attention, no?

Whatever, this bug is very blocking for me as I use Calibre a lot to read/convert books and comics. I've installed the latest standalone binary build of calibre as recommended by @eschwartz and it works seamlessly (I used `wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin install_dir=~/calibre-bin isolated=y` to install it as user for testing purposes).

Can someone tell me (or point me to documentations that explain) how I could create a wrapper package that executes this script and how I can ask Ubuntu's maintainers to replace the current faulty package from the repos by such a wrapper package?

Thanks