diff -up calibre/src/calibre/linux.py.manpages calibre/src/calibre/linux.py
--- calibre/src/calibre/linux.py	2010-04-18 16:20:25.000000000 +0200
+++ calibre/src/calibre/linux.py.1	2010-04-18 16:21:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
                 if isfreebsd:
                     manfile = os.path.join(manpath, prog+'.1')
                 else:
-                    manfile = os.path.join(manpath, prog+'.1'+__appname__+'.bz2')
+                    manfile = os.path.join(manpath, prog+'.1')
                 self.info('\tInstalling MAN page for', prog)
                 open(manfile, 'wb').write(raw)
                 self.manifest.append(manfile)
--- calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py	2010-04-18 16:20:25.000000000 +0200
+++ calibre/src/calibre/utils/help2man.py.2	2010-04-18 16:27:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 __copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
-import time, bz2
+import time
 from calibre.constants import isfreebsd
 
 from calibre.constants import __version__, __appname__, __author__
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
             x in lines]
 
     if not isfreebsd:
-        return  bz2.compress((u'\n'.join(lines)).encode('utf-8'))
+        return  (u'\n'.join(lines)).encode('utf-8')
     else:
         return  (u'\n'.join(lines)).encode('utf-8')