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Karmic Koala is due to come out of beta in 11 days. Thinking about the chaos that the last mac update caused, I'm actually managing to resist the temptation to install the beta. There's already been one possible bug report
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9162/plugin-crashes-openoffice/
and I thought somebody was running into problems with AppArmor (yes that is how it's spelt) but can't find the thread.
So - has anybody been trying the beta and have they had got Zotero and openoffice integration to play nice? Have the any of the devs tried it out?
Normally my resistance to "ooh new!" is incredibly low, but I actually need Zotero to work on all my machines at the mo :)
Regards,
Jon.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9162/plugin-crashes-openoffice/
and I thought somebody was running into problems with AppArmor (yes that is how it's spelt) but can't find the thread.
So - has anybody been trying the beta and have they had got Zotero and openoffice integration to play nice? Have the any of the devs tried it out?
Normally my resistance to "ooh new!" is incredibly low, but I actually need Zotero to work on all my machines at the mo :)
Regards,
Jon.
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So tried it: it was a bit unstable, but I suspect that was more to the way I was doing it but the important good news is that eventually I did get everything to work.
Installed Zotero and synced the meta data only.
Installed java and the java plugin (have to remember to select the Software Sources from Admin).
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
Installed the openoffice plugin.
Tried to insert a reference. Well the first time I did this, Firefox crashed - I think this was because I had My Library selected and this was just too much for my laptop. Restarted Firefox, selected a folder with only a dozen or so references in it. Started openoffice and successfully inserted references, changed the citation style, inserted a bibliography, edited stuff.
[edit update: did the same thing with my desktop machine and all instability has gone. I suspect this is because a) more RAM b) better processor, my v. ancient laptop was struggling with running Ubuntu off a usb stick a bit ]
So: in a very limited test, Karmic is getting a clean bill of health for Zotero use. But there doesn't seem to be anything obviously fatal going on, as there was with the apparmor problem
Regards, Jon
Actually the best non-medicalised description of this, incidentally by one of my favourite authors, was that his saving throw versus "Shiny!" was very low. But that may just be too geeky a description. But then this is a linux thread ....
I'm still going to hold off installing Karmic on my desktop till the final is out. I've cleared this coming weekend, so will probably install it then. Should anything go wrong Zotero-wise, the screams will be heard on this forum, but my test has left me reasonably hopeful that it will all "just work".
Regards, Jon.
(OK, I'll byte: which author?)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/10/third_time_lucky.html
The irony of not attributing a quote the first time on a forum dedicated to getting a piece of bibliographic software to work would fry a few synapses only I'm still pre-coffee.
I'm sure it will all be fine - as I said in my initial post, part of my caution was just from seeing what a nightmare the last OSX upgrade turned out to be for some people. Plus for once in my life actually making the saving throw ...
Am currently dual booting Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows (ooh shiny) 7. Integration with Open Office seems to be OK on both.
At the moment, I use the same Zotero folder but I'm getting repeat download & upload issues. I'm thinking given that sync works well now to just have separate date stores for each OS.