[Solved] Report ID: 1270546352

wolf29 · September 21, 2014

My zotero Stand-alone no longer sorts at all by tapping the headers of the fields. I recently upgraded to 4.o.22, by downloading the files, unzipping them and cp -R [source] /opt/Zotero/
I am going to try just clearing the /opt/Zotero folder and recopying the new stuff. there could be some 4.0.21 files that are still there.
BTW, the automated updates of Zotero do not work as I am set up. I put the zotero app in /opt and call it from a script I put into /usr/bin - all possix-style.
Ubuntu Studio 14.04

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OK, I figured it out.
root@local:/home/me/Downloads/Zotero-next/Zotero_linux-i686# rm -rf /opt/[Zz]otero/*
root@local:/home/me/Downloads/Zotero-next/Zotero_linux-i686# cp -R ./* /opt/Zotero/

Works again!
Can close this ticket

aurimas · September 22, 2014

You should be able to update Zotero Standalone by running it with elevated privileges (i.e. sudo).

Otherwise, https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/25317/install-zotero-standalone-from-ubuntu-linux-mint-ppa/ (which might need a bit of time to catch up to latest release) and https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20262/zotero-standalone-automated-installer-linux/ may be of interest to you.

dstillman · September 22, 2014

No, running Zotero with elevated privileges isn't a good idea, even for updates (and I'm not sure recent versions even allow it) — doing it all the time is bad practice for security reasons, and if it writes files to the data directory while root, things can break later while running as a normal user.

On Linux you should install manually, keep it owned by your own user, or use an installer package.

wolf29 · September 24, 2014

Thanks for the ideas. I will look into the installers.
I like to put files in standard locations in the file-system.
I could make a deb file for it, but
root@local:~/# mv -R /opt/[Zz]otero /opt/[Zz]otero.old
root@<download_location>/Zotero-next/Zotero_linux-i686# cp -R ./* /opt/Zotero/
would be a safe enough script for the source.