Zotero, Debian GNU/Linux and pdftotext/pdfinfo

lmds

Hello,

I'm using Debian and programs pdftotext, pdfinfo, are included in the package poppler-utils.
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/poppler-utils

Package already installed but Zotero still clames I do not have those programs. They're installed :

lmds@xingu:~$ which pdftotext
/usr/bin/pdftotext
lmds@xingu:~$ which pdfinfo
/usr/bin/pdfinfo

Last plugin installed for iceweasel 17.esr.

lmds@xingu:~$ aptitude show iceweasel
Paquet : iceweasel
État: installé
Automatiquement installé: oui
Version : 17.0.8esr-1~deb7u1
Priorité : optionnel
Section : web
Responsable : Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture : amd64
Taille décompressée : 10,5 M
Dépend: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~) | libnspr4-0d
(>= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), fontconfig, procps, debianutils
(>= 1.16), xulrunner-17.0 (>= 17.0.8esr-1~deb7u1), libsqlite3-0 (>=
3.7.12-1~)
Suggère: fonts-stix | otf-stix, mozplugger, libgssapi-krb5-2 | libkrb53
Casse: xul-ext-torbutton
Fournit: gnome-www-browser, www-browser
Description : navigateur web basé sur Firefox
Iceweasel est le même programme que Firefox avec un nom différent. C'est un
navigateur web puissant, extensible, qui gère les technologies web modernes.



Thanks for your work.

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Cheers
Louis De Sousa

dstillman

It doesn't use the system versions, since it needs a custom build of pdfinfo. Install them through the Search pane.

dstillman

(If you really want to use the system versions you could probably replace the downloaded binaries with shell scripts that proxied the command-line arguments, though I haven't tested that. You'd have to make the pdfinfo shell script take an output file as an argument and redirect the real pdfinfo's output to a file, since the original doesn't support that.)

lmds

Ok.
Thanks for your quick answer.

Perhaps text should be changed. It's confusing for a GNU/Linux user who usually uses shared libraries. Zotero asks for two binaries already installed.
If custom builds are needed, names should be changed.
Imho :-)

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Cheers
Louis De Sousa

dstillman

Hopefully Zotero will just be able to use pdf.js soon and drop the Xpdf dependency altogether.

lmds

Ok. :-)

By the way, I work for a french educationnal organisation :
http://www.crdp.ac-versailles.fr/

Is there a way to manage the server part of Zotero ? Or must it be centralized in your organisation ?

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Louis De Sousa

adamsmith

all Zotero code is online, but custom dataserver installations receive no support at all from Zotero developers, so if you go that way, you're on your own.
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/dataserver_setup
and various threads on zotero-dev, including
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/zotero-dev/p5Mlvnw3nXY
Any further questions on that should go to the dev list.

lmds

I wasn't meaning installing a custom server. But a mirror server or participating to a farm of servers, and this way, helping the project.

Thanks for the informations and links.