On Debian without Python

[danceswithcats]

Hi,
Thanks for this software. I use your recommended option of the Calibre plugins for books, but I have a few audiobooks I'd like to be able to store locally.
I used the linux package installer and it seemed to run, saying kobodl-ubuntu.2 was saved. However, when I ran commands using kobodl, kobodl-ubuntu and kobodl-ubuntu.2, I got command not found each time. dpkg -- list grepped to those three terms gave me nothing.
I've read the Usage section quite carefully and I think I have tried everything.
Sorry to be a pain. A little knowledge...
Do I need to be using Ubuntu? I haven't tried the python packages yet, but I thought I'd check whether I'm doing some basic thing wrong.

Thanks,
Peter

[subdavis]

The linux download is a binary executable, not an aptitude (apt) package. It does not have automatic scripts to place the binary in a common folder like /usr/local/bin. In other words, the downloaded binary is not on your system PATH

You can inspect your system path by looking at echo $PATH. Its's just a list of folders on your filesystem where your shell (terminal) will look to find executable programs. That should give you some terms to google if you want to fix it.

In the mean time, I recommend just executing the binary directly using the instructions here: https://github.com/subdavis/kobo-book-downloader?tab=readme-ov-file#pre-built-bundles

The chmod part is important, don't skip that :)