[bug] Conversion options not appearing in the UI

[TangentFoxy]

Describe the bug
I was told that this project works as a drop-in replacement of calibre-web, so I installed it on top of an extant database. Everything has been working fine, but the conversion options aren't appearing in the UI. The current "External binaries" section of settings looks like this:

Is something else supposed to be present? I assume because I dropped this onto an extant library, a required missing item wasn't added during the first initialization?

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install calibre-web-automated using an existing calibre-web database.

Screenshots
See above.

Configuration(please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
• Hardware: x64 server

[TangentFoxy]

I tried setting "Path to Calibre Binaries" to /usr/bin as suggested in #57 and that enabled conversion.

So the bug is either in documentation not telling us to do that or in the system not recognizing that it needs to add this if it is missing.

[crocodilestick]

Hi @TangentFoxy , for most users CWA automatically sets the location of those binaries in the app.db database of your config folder upon container start up. What version of CWA are you currently using? If the latest, ensure the permissions for everything in your bound folders are not set to root

[jadehawk]

Same boat here. Latest CWA. I don't see any conversion option in the UI (If that's where they are supposed to be). I can attach to the container and browse my way to /usr/bin and start kepubify from the CLI and it works, but I don't see how to use this on the CWA web UI. What am I missing.? Thx No even sure how to get the regular calibre conversion going either.

[crocodilestick]

@jadehawk this was a big in the latest version, there is a start up script to set the location of the binaries automatically but it doesn't work in the current version. It has already been fixed in the dev version and will be in the next release

[jadehawk]

@jadehawk this was a big in the latest version, there is a start up script to set the location of the binaries automatically but it doesn't work in the current version. It has already been fixed in the dev version and will be in the next release

Perfect, Thank you!!. Will await next release.

P.S.
Found how to run the DEV version. Manual conversion to Kepub worked. Can't get epub to PDF but has to be something I'm doing wrong.