diff -Nur calibre.orig/src/calibre/linux.py calibre/src/calibre/linux.py

--- calibre.orig/src/calibre/linux.py	2011-05-27 10:42:14.000000000 -0600

+++ calibre/src/calibre/linux.py	2011-05-27 20:06:53.461866793 -0600

@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@

                     continue

                 parser = parser()

                 raw = create_man_page(prog, parser)

-                if isbsd:

+                if isbsd or islinux:

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

                 else:

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

diff -Nur calibre.orig/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py

--- calibre.orig/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py	2011-05-27 10:42:14.000000000 -0600

+++ calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py	2011-05-27 20:08:28.314256418 -0600

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'

 import time, bz2

-from calibre.constants import isbsd

+from calibre.constants import isbsd, islinux

 from calibre.constants import __version__, __appname__, __author__

@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@

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

             x in lines]

-    if not isbsd:

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

-    else:

+    if isbsd or islinux:

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

+    else:

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