This installation process was tested on aa fresh Ubuntu 19.04 Server.
We'll need a PostgreSQL database for later, maker sure to install it and create a datbase and an user to use it. it's using a Sqlite now.
Fisrt of all lets install the basis, node and npm:
sudo apt install nodejs npm
Ok, lets clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/EduFdezSoy/Manga2Kindle_Server.git
and enter the folder
cd Manga2Kindle_Server
now we may install all the npm dependencies with:
npm install
Lets move to the next step, first we'll clone KCC:
git clone https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc.git
the folder with KCC may end as:
Manga2Kindle_Server/kcc-master
Now we need to download KindleGen inside Manga2Kindle_Server/kindlegen
you'll need to download it directly from the Amazon KindleGen page and extract it in the folder.
Last but not least we need 7zip
sudo apt install p7zip-full
To finish it all we need Python and others dependencies or KCC wont work, we can get rid of it with:
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-psutil python3-slugify
and
pip3 install pillow
Now we can move to the database, I asume you have your user and your database created somewhere so we only need to execute the manga2kindle.sql and our db will be completed.
NOTE: You may want to remove the test data at the bottom of the file.
All the config is set in a .env file, you can copy the config from the .env.example.
This config file is divided in 3 blocks:
The first one:
MASTER_NAME=Manga2Kindle
PORT=3000
TEMP_FOLDER=tmp
DELETE_INPUT=true
MASTER_NAME is the suite name, you may not change it. It won't be displayed anywhere but used as metadata with the version number to make it easier to debug it later.
PORT is.. the port where the server will be started.
TEMP_FOLDER is used to store the uploads while in queue or being processed.
DELETE_INPUT if set to false will save all files uploaded. Useful while debugin.
# DATABASE CONNECTION
PGHOST=localhost
PGUSER=manga2kindle
PGDATABASE=manga2kindle
PGPASSWORD=manga2kindle
PGPORT=5432
And the last one has all the mail service configuration:
# EMAIL CONFIG
# the server will send a mails with errors (if enabled)
INFO_MAIL_ENABLED=true
MAIL_TO=your_error_mail_box@example.com
# SERVICES: gmail, smtp
MAIL_SERVICE=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.example.com
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_SECURE=true
MAIL_USERNAME=your_mail@example.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_awesome_password_123
MAIL_SENDER=your_mail_sender@example.com
MAIL_REPLY_TO=your_mail_sender@example.com
INFO_MAIL_ENABLED won't send anything right now but in the future we expect the errors to be sent to the MAIL_TO mailbox.
When using gmail as MAIL_SERVICE you'll only need MAIL_USERNAME and MAIL_PASSWORD. You'll need to configure your Gmail to be able to conect to.
That's all you need to do, now you can run the server with:
npm start
- KCC clone that proyect inside this one, may create a folder called kcc-master
- 7z to work with zips
- KindleGen in kindlegen directory, to convert epub to mobi
- Other dependencies: NodeJS 8.11+, Python 3.3+, Pillow 4.0.0+, psutil 5.0.0+, python-slugify 1.2.1+
If you really liked it and feel like I deserve some money, you can buy me a coffee and I'll continue transforming caffeine into code!
Copyright © 2019 Eduardo Fernandez.
Manga2Kindle Server is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License; see LICENSE for further details.