Anyone got Zotero plugin working in Word on WINE in Linux?

alankerr · June 23, 2022

Just like it says: Anyone got Zotero plugin working in Word on WINE in Linux?
I've been running Word in Codeweavers Crossover Office version of WINE on Linux.
But although Zotero installs, the plugin doesn't work.
I screwed with it a bit, and almost got it to work by altering the calls to Firefox in the plugin VB files to zotero. But I'd love to hear a way to get it to actually function as intended.

Don't want to have to run Windows just to get citations to work.

alankerr · February 4, 2023

Update to this in case anyone's interested (and has a solution to upgrading).
Running MS Word in (Codeweaver's Crossover Office version of) WINE. I got Zotero working in the WINE container (as outlined here https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12426/word-intergration-with-wine and here https://www.reddit.com/r/winehq/comments/kwb7nx/comment/gj5sda7/?context=3)

Steps:
Download Zotero 5.0.58 (https://www.zotero.org/download/client/dl?channel=release&platform=win32&version=5.0.58)
Intall, launch Word and Zotero, and close them.
Replace the stock Zotero.dotm with this modified version: https://github.com/ozdemirmelih/Zotero-5.0.58-citiation-plugin/blob/main/Zotero.dotm
(In Crossover it goes in: ~/.cxoffice/Bottle_with_MS_Office_and_Zotero/drive_c/users/%user_name%/Application\ Data/Microsoft/Word/STARTUP/)
In Zotero Edit -> Settings -> Advanced -> Configuration editor -> set app.update.auto FALSE, otherwise Zotero gets autoupdated to a non working version and you have to redo steps 2 to 5 again.

I've tried editing later versions of Zotero.dotm, so I can upgrade, but it hasn't worked.

Anyone found a way to get past v5.0.58 in WINE?

emilianoeheyns · February 6, 2023

This must be a networking issue with WINE. Zotero talks to the word plugin over http if I'm not mistaken, so it should be possible to have wine-word talk to linux-zotero.

alankerr · February 7, 2023

Should be, but I haven't been able to figure out the secret sauce edits to the Zotero.dotm file to make it work yet.
In the older version, there were some changes to the VB in the Zotero.dot file that allowed it to work (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12426/word-intergration-with-wine/p3), but I haven't been able to extend that to newer versions yet.
Would love to hear about a solution (or a WINE-compatible version).