How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

[Joseph Sinclair]

They have .deb and rpm packages for most distros, you should be able to use that to make things easier.  (For instance, in Ubuntu or Debian you could do an apt-get install fbreader)

If you do want to build from source, I'd just extract to a new directory in /tmp and do the three-step (./configure; make; sudo make install) there.

Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
>> Josef Lowder wrote:
>>> Is there any way to open and read .azw or .prc (mobireader) 
>>> files with Linux?
> 
> On Sun, 04 May 2008 10:54, Joseph Sinclair wrote
>> Have you looked at FBReader (http://www.fbreader.org/)?  It's 
>> supposed to handle the .PRC files (provided there's no DRM!), and 
>> runs on Linux as well as a bunch of other platforms, it's also Free 
>> Software (GPL).
> 
> Thanks Joseph.  I've downloaded it ... the website says to extract 
> it in the root directory.  Does that sound right?  I don't recall ever 
> seeing instructions to extract a program in the root directory before. 
> 
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