(Please help) How to install Calibre Server and Calibre-Web on Windows 11

[vanessabluellie]

Hello,

I'm having trouble setting up and installing the Calibre Server and Calibre-Web on my Windows 11 laptop. I've looked through all of the FAQ (even Reddit forum) and any available resources, but the most I've been able to install were the commands to try to get somewhere with "Calibre-Web" like pip, chocolatey, scoop and sudo. I've been unable to install "apt", "apt-get" because it seems to only work with Linux so I'm stuck on step 1 with this guide [https://github.com/GBochicchio/calibre-web]...

In both CMD and PowerShell, I've tried using any other command like "python" and "python3", but neither worked. I can't initiate the cps.py file either because no matter what command I tried, it would say something like: unknown command "cps.py" or cps does not exist.

If anyone could please help guide me through the process of installing this, I'd really appreciate it...Thank you so much!!!

Environment (please complete the following information):

OS: Windows 11
Python version: Python 3.11
Calibre-Web version: calibre-web-0.6.19
Docker container: None (I think?) I've seen people able to install Calibre-Web with a docker or something, but I don't know what that meant or how to go about it...
Special Hardware: I'm sorry, I don't know
Browser: Chrome Version 107.0.5304.107

[DNSB]

Why not simply use the Calibre-web Windows installer? See Calibre-web V0.6.19 Daria for the download link. I would assume that you went to that site to download the bits and bobs for the Linux install and didn't click on Releases or V0.6.19 Daria

As mentioned in the web page you linked to:

For more information go to https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web.

[vanessabluellie]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Why not simply use the Calibre-web Windows installer? See Calibre-web V0.6.19 Daria for the download link.

As mentioned in the web page you linked to:

For more information go to https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web.

Hello, I've already tried running this executable file and only a blank pop-up appeared but nothing worked at all... So I wanted to manually install using powershell but I can't run the "cps" file, it doesn't work at all... I think there's a problem with the step before that about executing the file "requirements.txt".

I also posted for help in the github repository at calibre-web too, I posted an image there of the error, please refer to here: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/issues/2605

Thank you.

[DNSB]

After you ran the calibre-web installer and then executed calibre-web (which BTW, will give you a blank window), did you try opening a web browser pointed at http://127.0.0.1:8083?

[vanessabluellie]

Originally Posted by DNSB

After you ran the calibre-web installer and then executed calibre-web (which BTW, will give you a blank window, did you try opening a web browser pointed at http://127.0.0.1:8083?

Thank you, it loaded now!! But when I wanted to set the location of my Calibre Database to my user/downloads folder, an error appeared...

"DB Location is not Valid, Please Enter Correct Path"?

[vanessabluellie]

Originally Posted by DNSB

After you ran the calibre-web installer and then executed calibre-web (which BTW, will give you a blank window), did you try opening a web browser pointed at http://127.0.0.1:8083?

Ah sorry! I figured it out now, thank you so much for your help on both here and github!!