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'))