diff -up calibre/src/calibre/linux.py.manpages calibre/src/calibre/linux.py

--- calibre/src/calibre/linux.py.manpages	2010-04-10 19:34:42.632332811 +0300

+++ calibre/src/calibre/linux.py	2010-04-10 19:34:50.404207554 +0300

@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ class PostInstall:

                     continue

                 parser = parser()

                 raw = create_man_page(prog, parser)

-                if isfreebsd:

+                if isfreebsd or islinux:

                     manfile = os.path.join(manpath, prog+'.1')

                 else:

                     manfile = os.path.join(manpath, prog+'.1'+__appname__+'.bz2')

diff -up calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py.manpages calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py

--- calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py.manpages	2010-04-10 19:30:51.670926847 +0300

+++ calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py	2010-04-10 19:32:27.842332121 +0300

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ __copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal 

 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'

 import time, bz2

-from calibre.constants import isfreebsd

+from calibre.constants import isfreebsd, islinux

 from calibre.constants import __version__, __appname__, __author__

@@ -58,9 +58,7 @@ def create_man_page(prog, parser):

     lines = [x if isinstance(x, unicode) else unicode(x, 'utf-8', 'replace') for

             x in lines]

-    if not isfreebsd:

-        return  bz2.compress((u'\n'.join(lines)).encode('utf-8'))

-    else:

+    if isfreebsd or islinux:

         return  (u'\n'.join(lines)).encode('utf-8')

-

-

+    else:

+        return  bz2.compress((u'\n'.join(lines)).encode('utf-8'))