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  • Cassandra has had an adventurexgranade@wandering.shop
    Oct 8, 2026, 5:56 PM

    If you're interested in giving it a go, please **please** do not use it on a books library you care about. Make a new library and add things to that!

    I'm available here, on the #rereading channel over on LiberaChat, or on Signal and/or Matrix (DM for contact).

    I expect many parts of it just don't work, but really only looking for very basic functionality here, like adding books and editing basic metadata.

    Thank you so much!

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  • Cassandra has had an adventurexgranade@wandering.shop
    Oct 8, 2026, 5:58 PM

    If you're exceedingly bold, it *should* in principle work on Windows and macOS as well, but I've done literally nothing to confirm that yet. I plan on it, but it's a lot more steps so I'm starting from Linux and going from there.

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  • josh g.joshg@mathstodon.xyz
    Oct 8, 2026, 5:56 PM

    @xgranade I can give this a try, I've been wanting to build arcalibre and test run switching to it anyway.

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  • josh g.joshg@mathstodon.xyz
    Oct 8, 2026, 6:07 PM

    @xgranade hmm, when I run it, is it going to grab my existing calibre library by default and use it? ie. should I remove my existing .calibre or whatever files first

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  • Cassandra has had an adventurexgranade@wandering.shop
    Oct 8, 2026, 6:09 PM

    @joshg Ah, good point.

    You *should* be able to create a file named ~/.config/arcalibre/preferences.icdl containing something like the following:

    ```
    [library]
    library_path = "/path/to/test/library"
    ```

    I can't promise that there's no bugs that will cause it to look at an existing library, though — absolutely fair to not want to try and put that at risk!

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  • Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace :qvp:BestGirlGrace@social.illegalpornography.com
    Oct 8, 2026, 6:17 PM

    @xgranade Hmm, trying to build on nixos, I get 

     error: Cannot find Git revision 'ac62194c3917d5f474c1a844b6fd6da2db95077d' in ref '25.05' of repository 'https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git'! Please make sure that the rev exists on the ref you've specified or add allRefs = true; to fetchGit.

    when I nix-shell. Something's up with oldpkgs.

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  • Lisa St.Johngrimthorpe@tech.lgbt
    Oct 8, 2026, 8:53 PM

    @xgranade
    I've tried building on my Arch system and hit a compilation error in the ffmpeg.c code:

    gcc -Wall -DNDEBUG -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -pthread -fdiagnostics-color=always -I/usr/include/python3.14 '-DCALIBRE_MODINIT_FUNC= __attribute__ ((visibility ("default"))) PyObject*' -std=c99 -I/usr/include -c /home/lisa/src/arcalibre/src/calibre/utils/ffmpeg.c -o /home/lisa/src/arcalibre/build/objects/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.o
    /home/lisa/src/arcalibre/src/calibre/utils/ffmpeg.c: In function ‘open_output_file’:
    /home/lisa/src/arcalibre/src/calibre/utils/ffmpeg.c:248:42: error: ‘AVCodec’ has no member named ‘sample_fmts’
    248 | t->enc_ctx->sample_fmt = output_codec->sample_fmts[0];

    Arch only has ffmpeg 9 and ffmpeg 4 available, but I saw that the NixOS shell asks for ffmpeg 7, so i guess it is that.

    I'm too tired to do more tonight, so I'll try looking further tomorrow.

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  • Cassandra has had an adventurexgranade@wandering.shop
    Oct 8, 2026, 9:04 PM

    @grimthorpe Had someone else report a different ffmpeg error, so it seems like I've got a bunch of work to do there. Thank you so much for trying that out, I really appreciate having a direction to start looking!

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