Stuck after clicking 'Manual Installation` and can't find LibreOffice Directory.

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

Hello,
LibreOffice doesn't contain Zotero tab, so I can't use Zotero with LibreOffice on Debian 11. The Zotero version is 6.0.18, and it was installed by Snap shop. According to the site, I tried to install the plugin by adding the directory of LibreOffice but I can't find it whereas I can find it in the terminal. I can't add the directory of LibreOffice to Zotero in the terminal. Then I tried to install it by Manual Installation. But when I click this button, the Zotero was stuck and can only be shutdown by force. How should I install it?
Thanks.

dstillman · January 6, 2023

You're using a sandboxed, third-party package of Zotero. We can't help with that, and it's likely to cause problems with file access. We can only provide support for the official tarball and zotero-deb package:

https://www.zotero.org/support/installation#linux

(The LibreOffice extension is just a standard .oxt, though, so you can always install it manually, even if you have to copy the .oxt outside of a sandbox first.)

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

Thanks. But the version of Zotero for Debian system is too old which was released in 2008. I can't find Zotero_OpenOffice_Integration.oxt in the directory. Maybe this missing is caused by Snap shop.

dstillman · January 6, 2023

There is both a standard Linux tarball and a Debian/Ubuntu package on the page I linked to. Both are the latest version of Zotero.

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

Hello,

For Ubuntu, the tarball includes a .desktop file that can be used to add Zotero to the launcher. Move the extracted directory to a location of your choice (e.g., /opt/zotero), run the set_launcher_icon script from a terminal to update the .desktop file for that location, and symlink zotero.desktop into ~/.local/share/applications/ (e.g., ln -s /opt/zotero/zotero.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/zotero.desktop). Zotero should then appear either in your launcher or in the applications list when you click the grid icon (“Show Applications”), from which you can drag it to the launcher.

I did it as above, but I can start Zotero. Does this way work for Debian 11?

Debian/Ubuntu-based Distros

A longtime community member maintains zotero-deb, a lightweight wrapper for the official tarball.

This way can only install the very old version.
How can I install the latest version of Zotero?

dstillman · January 6, 2023

No, you're mistaken. zotero-deb always has the current version of Zotero.

If you've installed Zotero some other way previously, you'll need to remove whatever you done from your system.

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

I ran these codes:
(re)install using curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/retorquere/zotero-deb/master/install.sh | sudo bash
in my terminal on Debian 11, but it did nothing. Did I do wrong?

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

If I
sudo bash install.sh
there is an error:
install.sh: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
install.sh: line 8: `<!DOCTYPE html>'

dstillman · January 6, 2023

install.sh isn't an HTML file, so you're downloading something other than the actual file.

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

How should I solve this problem to install Zotero on Debian 11?

dstillman · January 6, 2023

You should download the actual file. We can't troubleshoot your network connection for you.

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

Installing Zotero
To install Zotero, use the following commands:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/retorquere/zotero-deb/master/install.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install zotero

I failed. How can I download the actual file? I downloaded it from https://www.zotero.org/download/client/dl?channel=release&platform=linux-x86_64&version=6.0.19

But I can't install it on Debian 11.

dstillman · January 6, 2023

You're going to have to ask someone you know to help you. Installing a tarball and running a shell script are basic Linux tasks, and we can't provide general Linux troubleshooting here. If you choose to use Linux, you'll need to figure this out or get someone to help you.

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

I have tarred the tarball and run the shell script. May you confirm that the file from https://www.zotero.org/download/client/dl?channel=release&platform=linux-x86_64&version=6.0.19 can be installed on Debian 11 successfully?
Thanks.

sfdsfsdf · January 6, 2023

@dstillman
Thanks for your kind help. I have installed Zotero from https://www.zotero.org/download/client/dl?channel=release&platform=linux-x86_64&version=6.0.19 .

My ability to use Linux is too poor. Thanks.