Upgrade Storagezotero updates
i downloaded zotero off the internet about a month ago and have been using it with good results. recently a 'software update' popped up on my screen saying "unable to update: a recommended update is available but you do not have permission to install it; to update automatically, modify the zotero program directory to be writeable by your user account." can someone please explain what this means, if it is recommended to do this, and if so how to do it
One way to solve this is, as suggested, to make the zotero folder temporarily writeable to every user, e.g.
$ chmod -R o+w /opt/zotero /opt
Then try to check for updates ("Help" --> "Check for Updates..."), it should work now.
Note: After the update you probably want to change the permissions of the zotero folder back to whatever it was before (it might be a bit dangerous otherwise to allow every process to write into that folder, I guess... ?), that would be
$ chmod -R o-w /opt/zotero /opt