Compiling ConvertLit on Ubuntu Linux 9.10

Posted by Erik on December 31, 2009 Leave a comment (4) Go to comments

So, ConvertLit seems to be a good solution for those looking to convert LIT ebooks into EPUB (well, into HTML, but then into EPUB…).  Unfortunately, the developers seem to be unable to properly make a good source tarball for version 1.8.  Here’s what I did:

  1. Download Version 1.8 source from here.
  2. unzip clit18src.zip -d convertlit
  3. sudo apt-get install libtommath-dev
  4. Download this to the convertlit directory.
  5. patch -p1 -i clit18.source.patch
  6. You should see the clit18/Makefile was patched
  7. cd lib && make && cd ../clit18 && make
  8. the clit binary should be available in the clit18 directory
  9. sudo cp clit18/clit /usr/local/bin/
  10. Use it!

Now I just have to figure out how to convert it to epub.


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4 Comments.

  1. Mike January 14, 2010 at 6:44 PM

    Thanks for the patch!

  2. IDtheTarget March 20, 2010 at 8:54 AM

    The link for the patch clit18.source.patch seems to have disappeared….

  4. Hari Sundararajan April 27, 2010 at 1:23 PM

    Or you can install convlit :)

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