zotero not recognized

WizardOfBoz

Ok, so I deleted zotero and re-installed per the linux instructions (Ubuntu 20.04). Copy the extracted directory to /opt/zotero, and run the set_launcher app, and then run the symlink command. As per here. https://www.zotero.org/support/installation

If I click in the lower left corner and type zot... The icon appears. If I click it, nothing. Zotero does not run. I can run zotero by going to /opt/zotero and typing ./zotero. But then I have a terminal sitting around. So a combo of cd /opt/zotero, then nohup ./zotero, then Ctrl-Z, disown, and kill the terminal.

There really has to be a better way. What am I missing. Clearly the command "zotero" is not recognized...

Thanks.

WizardOfBoz

The zotero.desktop file, FYI:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Zotero
exec=bash -c "$(dirname $(realpath $(echo %k | sed -e 's/^file:\/\///')))/zotero -url %U"
Icon=/opt/zotero/chrome/icons/default/default256.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Office;
MimeType=text/plain

WizardOfBoz

Bump. Anyone? This would seem to be "low hanging fruit" for the experts here! Thanks.

adamsmith

Linux troubleshooting is rarely low hanging fruit. Why aren't you using the package?
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb

WizardOfBoz

Ah, I was using the linux and not the ubuntu/deb approach. Thanks.

WizardOfBoz

Well, the deb file approach didn't work either. Removed it all, manually downloaded and untarred the tarball and copied to /opt/zotero. ran set_launcher. Created a symbolic link. Now it seems to work from the program launcher. But not from a term. Sigh.

It would be so easy for the Ubuntu instructions to just have the wget commands and such. This is one aspect of why Ubuntu/Linux is still swamped by Windows: Different versions have totally different install processes, install advice is Balkanized (Oh! To change a filename? The best approach is to install the nix-shell, open frizbot using Kubernetes, and yed your yaml file. Then reinstall Ubuntu (make sure its 20.04U, the Ukrainian version) and refactor all non-unicode text files in /usr/local/really_obscure...

Sorry guys. I'm tired. But including simple Ubuntu commands on the install page would have saved me a lot of time.

dstillman

I don't know what you're talking about here. We just provide a tarball, like many other pieces of software. You can run ./zotero from a terminal or follow our instructions to add it to the launcher.

If you want a package for a Debian-based system, we recommend zotero-deb, which generally works for people and has its own install instructions, but we don't have anything to do with that.

I don't know what "wget commands and such" is supposed to mean. You don't need to use wget to install Zotero.