These instructions are for installing the Calibre book management software on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu 20.04 but should work with Raspian or other Debian-derived operating systems. This is just a briefer version of the same instructions that are posted here.

Install the calibre-bin package and its dependencies:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y $ sudo apt install calibre-bin

Create a ‘git’ user:

$ sudo adduser git

Login as the ‘git’ user and download the gitea binary from the gitea website (choose the latest version):

wget -O gitea https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.14.5/gitea-1.14.5-linux-amd64 chmod +x gitea

Create a service. We’re keeping it simple here so we don’t need a lot of the database-specific stuff: