Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?

From	Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?
Date	2023-10-03 18:10 +0200
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On Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:38:02 +0100
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tuesday,  3 Oct 2023 at 08:32, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > Yes, calibre is very good, and I've at last managed to get it to
> > acknowledge the kindle scribe, but only by deleting most of the mtp
> > programs that I'd been installing to try and get the scribe and my
> > computer communicating with each  
> 
> [...]
> 
> > QMessageBox, QLabel,
> >   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt4'
> >   Device 0 (VID=1949 and PID=9981) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.20.
> >   Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp
> > development team  
> 
> It looks like there's still some mtp stuff potentially causing
> problems?
> 
> How did you install calibre?  From the website directly or via apt?
> Depending on the version of Debian you are using, the calibre from apt
> may be more than good enough.  The version on Debian 12 (Buster? 
> Bullseye?  I cannot remember) is quite recent.
> 

No. Trixie (testing) and sid (unstable) have an mtp-compatible version
of Calibre, nothing earlier does.

-- 
Joe

Thread

Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble09.plus.com> - 2023-10-01 16:10 +0200
  Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2023-10-01 16:30 +0200
    Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-10-02 11:40 +0200
      Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble09.plus.com> - 2023-10-03 09:40 +0200
        Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-10-03 12:40 +0200
          Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2023-10-03 18:10 +0200
        Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2023-10-03 17:30 +0200

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