Upgrade Storage[Zotero 7 Flatpak] WebDAV Won't Recognize Custom Certificate Authority
Until recently, I was using Zotero (non-flatpak) on my Fedora 40 computer, and after getting some help here in the forums (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/114197/zotero-7-beta-webdav-wont-recognize-custom-certificate-authority) I was able to sync my attachments using WebDAV into my Nextcloud, which is signed with a custom CA that I have control over. However, I recently swapped over to Kionite, which is the same setup but immutable, meaning that essentially everything should be installed inside containers. As such, I installed Zotero as a flatpak, but with it, I have been unable to get it to recognize my custom CA.
I am, of course, aware that the flatpak is not managed by the official Zotero team. However, I thought I would still check here in case anyone has any ideas of what I could potentially be doing wrong.
Last time I had this problem, what I did to resolve it was
1. Download Firefox ESR 115 using the official tarball
2. Adding my certificate for my CA
3. Copying the cert9.db, key4.db, and pkcs11.txt into Zotero
4. Restarting Zotero
However, this did not work this time - Zotero still doesn't recognize my CA.
I have a very strong feeling this is flatpak-related, as I noticed that the Firefox flatpak does not have cert9.db, key4.db, and pkcs11.txt anywhere within it, which makes me think that an entirely different process would be needed for the Zotero flatpak as well. However, I do not know what this process would be.
Is there anything I can try, or should I give up on the Zotero flatpak and try and run Zotero in some kind of other container? (the container being necessary because, again, this is an immutable OS, so everything should be run in containers.)
I am, of course, aware that the flatpak is not managed by the official Zotero team. However, I thought I would still check here in case anyone has any ideas of what I could potentially be doing wrong.
Last time I had this problem, what I did to resolve it was
1. Download Firefox ESR 115 using the official tarball
2. Adding my certificate for my CA
3. Copying the cert9.db, key4.db, and pkcs11.txt into Zotero
4. Restarting Zotero
However, this did not work this time - Zotero still doesn't recognize my CA.
I have a very strong feeling this is flatpak-related, as I noticed that the Firefox flatpak does not have cert9.db, key4.db, and pkcs11.txt anywhere within it, which makes me think that an entirely different process would be needed for the Zotero flatpak as well. However, I do not know what this process would be.
Is there anything I can try, or should I give up on the Zotero flatpak and try and run Zotero in some kind of other container? (the container being necessary because, again, this is an immutable OS, so everything should be run in containers.)
In the end, what I ended up doing was uninstalling the flatpak and installing zotero through distrobox. I made a seperate box for Zotero, based on a Debian image, then installed it using this information here:
https://www.zotero.org/support/installation
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb
That made the process super easy. From there, I was able to follow the steps I had followed in the past to get my custom CA recognized, and everything synced. I can also confirm, installing Zotero this way, despite being in a container, still works with both the Libreoffice connector and the Firefox connector.
1. Flatpak
2. RPM-Ostree (a method to use RPMs on immutable distros)
3. Distrobox/Toolbx
and only use AppImages and tarballs if no other option is available, although they do still work. Snaps, on the other hand, don't work at all.
So while I could use the official tarball, it seems to be working perfectly in distrobox, so I think that's possibly better practice to do. Again, though, I could be being stupid haha