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2007-01-21 16:37 - Plucker-build and Ubuntu
Plucker is a PDB (Palm e-book documents) reader and creator. I use it to convert HTML files to PDB format, so that I can comfortly read them on my PDA. Plucker is part of Ubuntu's "universe" repository, but it installs rather crippled. Do this to fix it:
sudo su - (type your password to become root)
cd /usr/bin
PYPLUCKER=../lib/python2.4/site-packages/PyPlucker
ln -fs $PYPLUCKER/Spider.py plucker-build
ln -fs $PYPLUCKER/PluckerDocs.py plucker-de
ln -fs $PYPLUCKER/PluckerDocs.py plucker-decode
ln -fs $PYPLUCKER/Decode.py plucker-dump
ln -fs $PYPLUCKER/pluck-comics.py pluck-comics
After doing this, you'll be able to do:
plucker-build somefile.html > somefile.pdb
to create the files.
Comments
You're a frikkin' legend... Wondered what the hell was going on, I could see /usr/bin/plucker in the manifest for the package but I couldn't run it :/ Anyway, consider posting this on the ubuntu forums if you haven't already!
by - 3 years, 5 months ago.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Just installed edgy, and was baffled by how to get plucker working. I knew I had used it under past versions of Ubuntu.
by Elaine - 3 years, 5 months ago.
It seems plucker-build isn't in universe right now. However, it has been on my system a while, and the only way I found to obtain pdb files was to run Spider.py on html files via the conf file in etc (ouch). I knew there had to be a better way. Thanks!
by - 3 years, 4 months ago.
Hey, thanks for the post. Just updating some of the code from Plucker and a goal is to get things working slick on Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu Dapper, and installing the plucker package that comes with Ubuntu's package manager in that release doesn't install the plucker-build (even though it is listed as one of the installed files).
Steps: (1) Do a google search for plucker debian, and you will find a page to download a .deb file. Choose i386 (or whatever matches your system).
In terminal window, go to the folder where downloaded the plucker .deb file and type this:
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends --force-overwrite plucker*.deb
Enter your password.
Start plucker-desktop. Voila! It works!
As a mention, if you prefer just to watch the output in a terminal instead of a progress dialog, there is a switch for this in the Plucker Desktop Preferences, at the top of the 'Spidering' tab.
by Robert O'Connor - 3 years, 1 month ago.
Hi Robert, thanks for your comments.
Since you are interested in getting things running smoothly on Ubuntu, I suggest you also try the latest version, 7.04 a.k.a. Edgy Eft.
A lot of things have changed since Dapper - for the good.
by Sybren Stüvel - 3 years, 1 month ago.
O.K., 'back to the future!'. The year is now, 2010. Thank you Robert for your advice, I've just done as you suggested on Jaunty. It was a success except that I have to update some dependencies. Shawn
by imaginashawn - 4 months, 3 weeks ago.
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Thanks for putting this information up; it really helped me.
by Steve - 3 years, 5 months ago.