linuxserver/calibre
Calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it's outstanding and a must-have. It'll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It's also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.
Simply pulling
lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.The architectures supported by this image are:
Architecture | Available | Tag |
|---|---|---|
x86-64 | ✅ | amd64-<version tag> |
arm64 | ✅ | arm64v8-<version tag> |
armhf | ❌ | |
This image sets up the calibre desktop app and makes its interface available via Guacamole server in the browser. The interface is available at
http://your-ip:8080 or https://your-ip:8181.By default, there is no password set for the main gui. Optional environment variable
PASSWORD will allow setting a password for the user abc, via http auth.Port 8081 is reserved for Calibre's built-in webserver, which can be enabled within the desktop app settings, and the internal port must be set to
8081 although it will then be available at the host mapped port for external access.This container is based on Docker Baseimage KasmVNC which means there are additional environment variables and run configurations to enable or disable specific functionality.
Variable | Description |
|---|---|
CUSTOM_PORT | Internal port the container listens on for http if it needs to be swapped from the default 8080. |
CUSTOM_HTTPS_PORT | Internal port the container listens on for https if it needs to be swapped from the default 8181. |
CUSTOM_USER | HTTP Basic auth username, abc is default. |
PASSWORD | HTTP Basic auth password, abc is default. If unset there will be no auth |
SUBFOLDER | Subfolder for the application if running a subfolder reverse proxy, need both slashes IE /subfolder/ |
TITLE | The page title displayed on the web browser, default "KasmVNC Client". |
FM_HOME | This is the home directory (landing) for the file manager, default "/config". |
START_DOCKER | If set to false a container with privilege will not automatically start the DinD Docker setup. |
DRINODE | If mounting in /dev/dri for DRI3 GPU Acceleration allows you to specify the device to use IE /dev/dri/renderD128 |
Variable | Description |
|---|---|
--privileged | Will start a Docker in Docker (DinD) setup inside the container to use docker in an isolated environment. For increased performance mount the Docker directory inside the container to the host IE -v /home/user/docker-data:/var/lib/docker. |
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock | Mount in the host level Docker socket to either interact with it via CLI or use Docker enabled applications. |
--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri | Mount a GPU into the container, this can be used in conjunction with the DRINODE environment variable to leverage a host video card for GPU accelerated appplications. Only Open Source drivers are supported IE (Intel,AMDGPU,Radeon,ATI,Nouveau) |
This container is capable of delivering a true lossless image at a high framerate to your web browser by changing the Stream Quality preset to "Lossless", more information here. In order to use this mode from a non localhost endpoint the HTTPS port on 8181 needs to be used. If using a reverse proxy to port 8080 specific headers will need to be set as outlined here.
To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.
---
version: "2.1"
services:
calibre:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:latest
container_name: calibre
security_opt:
- seccomp:unconfined #optional
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Etc/UTC
- PASSWORD= #optional
- CLI_ARGS= #optional
volumes:
- /path/to/data:/config
ports:
- 8080:8080
- 8181:8181
- 8081:8081
restart: unless-stopped
docker run -d \
--name=calibre \
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined `#optional` \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=Etc/UTC \
-e PASSWORD= `#optional` \
-e CLI_ARGS= `#optional` \
-p 8080:8080 \
-p 8181:8181 \
-p 8081:8081 \
-v /path/to/data:/config \
--restart unless-stopped \
lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:latest
Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate
<external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.Parameter | Function |
|---|---|
8080 | Calibre desktop gui. |
8181 | Calibre desktop gui HTTPS. |
8081 | Calibre webserver gui. |
Env | Function |
|---|---|
PUID=1000 | for UserID - see below for explanation |
PGID=1000 | for GroupID - see below for explanation |
TZ=Etc/UTC | |
PASSWORD= | Optionally set a password for the gui. |
CLI_ARGS= | Optionally pass cli start arguments to calibre. |
Volume | Function |
|---|---|
/config | Where calibre should store its database and library. |
Parameter | Function |
|---|---|
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined | For Docker Engine only, many modern gui apps need this to function as syscalls are unkown to Docker. |
You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend
FILE__.As an example:
-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword
Will set the environment variable
PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional
-e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.When using volumes (
-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.
In this instance
PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below: $ id username
uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)
We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.
- Shell access whilst the container is running:
docker exec -it calibre /bin/bash
- To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
docker logs -f calibre
- Container version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' calibre
- Image version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:latest
- 18.03.23: - Rebase to KasmVNC base image.
- 19.10.22: - Set the window title to
Calibre. Remove websocat as it is now handled properly in the baseimage. - 18.10.22: - Deprecate Arch branch.
- 07.10.22: - Start calibre window maximized.
- 16.09.22: - Rebase to jammy.
- 24.07.22: - Add arm64 build for master branch.
- 11.07.22: - Update dependencies for Calibre 6.
- 28.05.22: - Rebase to focal.
- 31.03.22: - Fix umask.
- 28.02.22: - Add speech support to bionic image.
- 05.01.22: - Add arch branch for arm platforms.
- 20.04.21: - Fix the HOME folder.
- 19.04.21: - Add libnss3 back in. Make sure Calibre can access environment variables.
- 18.04.21: - Start calibre on container start rather than gui connect.
- 15.04.21: - Rebase to rdesktop-web baseimage. Deprecate
GUAC_USERandGUAC_PASSenv vars. Existing users can set the new varPASSWORDfor the userabc. - 25.09.20: - Switch to python3, add various new dependencies for calibre 5.0.
- 10.05.19: - Add new env var
CLI_ARGSto pass start arguments to calibre. - 18.03.19: - Let Calibre access environment variables, add optional umask setting.
- 23.10.19: - Remove reccomended deps and zenity for character compatibility.
- 18.10.19: - Add python-xdg.
- 08.10.19: - Add fonts-wqy-microhei ttf-wqy-zenhei fcitx-rime dependency to resolve issue with Chinese encoding.
- 04.10.19: - Add libxkbcommon-x11-0 dependency to resolve issue with Calibre 4.
- 08.08.19: - Add zenity for international character support in dialog boxes.
- 12.07.19: - Download binary from calibre website instead of github.
- 29.04.19: - Initial release.
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