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• folquet: I stopped trying to install it; I have not made an attempt since the one referred to in my 14/Sept/2017 post. I have a Windows machine. I do my Zotero stuff on it. I will try again to install it on Linux, but I was waiting for some ti…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 November 17, 2017
• Zotero is now in /home/david/.local/share/applications. I attempted to get things going as you suggested above. It did not work. I stopped apparmor... it made no difference. Now here is something very strange (to me.) Out of frustration I did t…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 14, 2017
• Apparmor is in use on my computer: david@david-MATE:~$ sudo apparmor_status [sudo] password for david: apparmor module is loaded. 18 profiles are loaded. 18 profiles are in enforce mode. /sbin/dhclient /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• For what it's worth, I asked for help on the Ubuntu forum... Here's a link: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2371344&p=13686436#post13686436

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• I tried the PPA route, and as you foresaw, it failed. I will try your other suggestions soon. Thanks very much for your help and interest.

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• Not an issue, I guess: david@david-MATE:~$ selinuxenabled The program 'selinuxenabled' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install selinux-utils david@david-MATE:~$ david@david-MATE:~$ && echo enabled || ech…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• I tried ./; here is what happened: david@david-MATE:/opt/Zotero_linux-i686$ ./set_launcher_icon /opt/Zotero_linux-i686/zotero.desktop is not writable david@david-MATE:/opt/Zotero_linux-i686$ sudo ./set_launcher_icon [sudo] password for david: {Not…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• I started over... I extracted a copy of Zotero to /home/david I ran the two scripts from /home/david/Zotero_linux-i686. The results were the same as before.

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• I deleted Zotero from /opt and ~/.zotero/zotero from /home/david. I deleted the downloaded tarball of Zotero I downloaded a new copy of Zotero from zotero.org and extracted it to /opt. I ran the set_launcher_icon and zotero scripts as the instructi…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• I can create a file and save it to ~/.zotero/zotero manually. I deleted ~/.zotero, then ran sh zotero in /opt as user 'david.' ~/.zotero/zotero was replaced in the /home/david. In addition the following two errors were returned. 1. in the termin…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 13, 2017
• There is nothing in ~/.zotero except another directory called zotero (that is ~/.zotero/zotero). /zotero contains nothing. The two errors I have received indicate that there is an access problem, but I don't seem to be able to do anything about it.…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 12, 2017
• .zotero is in /home/david I used chown and chmod to get to the following for the user david: drwxrwxr-x 3 david david 4096 Sep 12 14:37 .zotero in .zotero there is another directory called zotero: drwxrwxr-x 2 david david 4096 Sep 12 14:37 zote…

  in Zotero won't start; it returns "...profile cannot be loaded..." Comment by david12 September 12, 2017