Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?
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
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