So to be both neat and useful, open a terminal and type sudo mv ~/Downloads/Zotero_linux-i686/ /opt But having the package in your home directory is a bit messy, and means it isn’t available for all users of the computer. Right click on it, choose ‘properties’ from the menu, and then the permissions tab, and tick the ‘Program’ box to allow it to run as a program.ģ: As it stands, Zotero will work. You’ll now have a folder called Zotero_linux, appended with -i686 for the 32-bit version, and -x86_64 for the 64bit. Note that you may be able to run the 32 bit version of Zotero on a 64 bit system, and that even if you have a 64 bit chip, your version of linux might be 32 bit.Ģ: Unzip it. You’ll get something like i686 if you are running a 32 bit system, and x86_64 if you have a 64 bit system. If you don’t know what type of system you have, open a terminal and type: uname -m For a 32bit chip, you’ll want the x86 version, for a 64bit get the x86_64. Warning: this is beta software! Warning 2: these instructions come with no guarantee of success!ġ: Download the Zotero standalone tarball. Certainly it works for my preferred flavour, Xubuntu. These instructions are based on Ubuntu 11.10, with the Unity desktop, but they should work for any variant. (On OS X it installs via the usual click, drag and drop.) Hence this post.
More versatile than the browser-based version, it is however a little more tricky to install on Linux. Having started off as a Firefox plug-in, it has recently released a beta of a stand-alone application. To say ‘reference manager’ understates what it is capable of: you can use it to organize your reading, collaborate with others, and produce bibliographies in a matter of seconds. Zotero is an open source reference manager, produced by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.