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How to install zotero in ubuntu?
As of 2019, the preferred way of installing Zotero is by using Emiliano Heyns' packages.
Run the following instructions on your terminal:
wget -qO- https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb/releases/...
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How to install zotero in ubuntu?
It's 2022 and Zotero is available as a snap in Ubuntu. A version of Zotero can be installed without having to add additional repositories (although you may get a more recent version if you do use some ...
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How to install zotero in ubuntu?
I have installed Zotero on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS recently.
This is how I have done:
First I downloaded the tarball from the Zotero Download page, extract its contents to a folder named Zotero_linux-x86_64....
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Failed to update Zotero after changing permission with chmod 707
With that command you only changed the permissions for the executable file, not for all the files the program uses (and probably needs to update).
I recommend that you chmod the /usr/bin/zotero file ...
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Zotero update permission denied in Ubuntu 20.04
Posting my above comment as an answer as apparently, this comes up for others, too:
The Snap package should disable updating from within the app -- as per its documentation, in-app update isn't ...
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how to register zotero:// protocol on ubuntu 16.04
Running into the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04, I just wanted to post the solution that worked for me.
The zotero.desktop file that is installed with the current version of Zotero is correct. The only ...
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Failed to update Zotero after changing permission with chmod 707
I just came across this exactly same problem.
The following worked for me:
sudo chmod -R a+rwx /usr/bin/zotero && sudo chmod -R a+rwx /opt/zotero
Basically, this is giving Read+Write+...
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Failed to update Zotero after changing permission with chmod 707
You'll want to also change the permissions of the /opt/zotero folder by running:
sudo chmod 707 /usr/bin/zotero && sudo chmod -R 707 /opt/zotero
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Zotero 6 is unable to open pdfs using the default application [Okular]
Try the following steps:
Open Zotero.
Go to Edit → Preferences.
Click the dropdown menu on Open PDFs using and select Custom...
In the window that opens navigate to the Okular installation ...
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Zotero update permission denied in Ubuntu 20.04
In my case kubuntu 22.04 there was a lock in /usr/lib/zotero
Try this:
sudo chmod 770 /usr/bin/zotero or sudo chmod -R 770 /opt/zotero
or both:
sudo chmod 770 /usr/bin/zotero && sudo chmod -R ...
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Failed to update Zotero after changing permission with chmod 707
I just resolved the issue by changing ownership of ~/zotero directory and successfully upgraded from Zotero Help>Check for Updates... link. For some reason, previous ownership was held by 501, ...
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Error opening directory in Zotero: Permission denied
To access data stored on a mounted NTFS partition on Ubuntu in Zotero:
Open Ubuntu Software app and find zotero-snap
Click on Permissions
Toggle "Read/write files on removable storage devices" to on
...
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Zotero does not lauch
As of 2019, the preferred way of installing Zotero is by using Emiliano Heyns' packages.
Run the following instructions on your terminal:
wget -qO- https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb/releases/...
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Synaptic Packager Manager won't open
Switching to an Xorg session allowed me to successfully run Synaptic. However, Synaptic didn't succeed in properly installing Zotero, so that remains a problem.
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how to register zotero:// protocol on ubuntu 16.04
As of 2019, the preferred way of installing Zotero is by using Emiliano Heyns' packages.
Run the following instructions on your terminal:
wget -qO- https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb/releases/...
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Zotero server installation
Official installation instructions for the Zotero data server are (deliberately ?) close to non-existent.
Samuel Hassine successfully managed to set up the Zotero server after seemingly much efforts ...
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Zotero indexing
OK, now I understand!...solution was to remove all the pdftotext & pdfinfo files in Zotero directory and re-install them from inside of Preferences/Search option in Zotero Standalone. Now indexing ...
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Firefox globalmenu for Zotero Standalone
As of 2019, the preferred way of installing Zotero is by using Emiliano Heyns' packages.
His repository also provides alternative packages with unofficial Global Menu support for Ubuntu 19.04+.
For ...
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How to install zotero in ubuntu?
I found a help here
https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-zotero-in-ubuntu/
The steps in the terminal are
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:smathot/cogscinl
Type your password and press ENTER when ...
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