Installer was in a loop reinstalling Calibre

[derekguenther]

Running on Windows 10. I had an old version of Calibre installed, hadn't used it in a while. The install script updated it for me, it correctly installed to my D:\ drive (I keep my C:\ drive generally only for my OS) then it restarted. However, it did not see Calibre (gave a message that it wasn't installed), it downloaded again, failed to see it again, etc.

Looking through the batch file, it seems to be assuming that Calibre would be in the Path. I manually added this line to the batch file ebook2audiobook.cmd as line 25, just under where it sets the Conda path.

set "PATH=D:\Program Files\Calibre2;%PATH%"

When I ran it this time, it continued on with running Conda to install the rest of the needed packages.

[ROBERT-MCDOWELL]

was your old calibre installed at the same path?
it would be nice to get the log of your failed installation
we cannot hardcode the path of calibre as each user can have it's own config.

[derekguenther]

Yes, it updated the existing installation of Calibre.

Where does the installer store its log? I don't see any echos to a file. If you mean what was in the console, I had to close it in order to be able to work on it.

Agreed that you can't hardcode the path, but that was hardly my point. I resolved the issue I found (but only for myself), and am sharing the information on what I found so that it might help prevent future trouble for other users. The installer was assuming Calibre would be in the system path environment variable, but neither the Calibre installer (the original installation I did years ago, nor the update) nor the ebook2audiobook install script itself put it there. Surely there's a way through a registry key or something to detect the Calibre path?

[ROBERT-MCDOWELL]

before to set the PATH, what CALIBRE_PATH env shows?