Flatsonar

calibre

by Kovid Goyal

The one stop solution to all your e-book needs

Dangerous permissions Flathub reviewed GPL-3.0 v9.14.0
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About

calibre is the one stop solution to all your e-book needs.

You can use calibre to catalog your books, fetch metadata for them automatically, convert them from and to all the various e-book formats, send them to your e-book reader devices, read the books on your computer, edit the books in a dedicated e-book editor and even make them available over the network with the built-in Content server. You can also download news and periodicals in e-book format from over a thousand different news and magazine websites.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • full access to your entire file system
    --filesystem=host
  • talks to system service org.freedesktop.UDisks2
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.UDisks2
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • access to xdg-run/speech-dispatcher
    --filesystem=xdg-run/speech-dispatcher:ro
  • access to xdg-data/Trash
    --filesystem=xdg-data/Trash
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x2)
    source:prebuilt
  • fetches from links.twibright.com over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes
    source:insecure-url
  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.