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Getting started

Caleb Waldorf edited this page Feb 15, 2022 · 11 revisions

Getting started

Prerequisites and dependencies

Prerequisites for macOS

To begin using b-ber you must have Command Line Tools for Xcode installed.

  1. Open Terminal.app and verify that Xcode is not already installed.
$ xcode-select -p

If you see:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

Xcode is installed. Update Xcode by opening the App Store, open the Updates tab, and click update if Xcode is present. If Xcode is not installed, download Xcode on the App Store and follow the installation instructions.

  1. Install Xcode Command Line Tools.
$ xcode-select --install

Click Install.

Dependencies

b-ber requires Node.js version 12, and Calibre.

Install on macOS, Linux, Windows

  1. Download and install Node.js.
  2. Download and install Calibre.

Add the Calibre CLI tool called ebook-convert.

Calibre must be added to your system path in order to enable its usage.

For example:

export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS"
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