Install on Ubuntu 11.04 with Libreoffice

Zeedok · April 28, 2011

I am trying to install Zotero 2.15 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Beta 2, Clean Install) and Libreoffice 3.3.

I am trying to get the latest version of the plugin working. Essentially, the install process completes without any error messages. The Zotero toolbar shows up in Libreoffice, but none of the controls respond --> I do not even get the "Cannot communicate with firefox message".

I think this is just a problems with defining the java paths, but am completely lost.

Can anyone help?

cokelly72 · April 28, 2011

This worked for me:

https://www.martineve.com/2011/04/03/installing-zotero-on-ubuntu-natty-11-04beta/

Zeedok · April 28, 2011

I tried that post and couldn't get it to work.

Any other options?

cokelly72 · April 28, 2011

Not much. The only thing that occurs to me is that I had a hard time getting Firefox to work with Sun Java. I had to uninstall all the other Java iterations (Icedtea and openjdk in my case) from my machine and then install Sun Java for Firefox to pick it up.

Problem there was that Firefox was running the Icedtea plugin for Java (check by going to tools-Add-ons) instead of the Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_24 supplied by Sun. Once I had that up and running I was sorted.

I'm not technical at all so what I've described above is the limits of my capacity for tinkering. Can't help much beyond that I'm afraid. :-(

Zeedok · April 29, 2011

This worked for me:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/17773/solved-openoffice-plugin-not-starting-ubuntu-1104-firefox-40/#Comment_91053