Zotero Install Help

[jonmch...@gmail.com]

Community,

I am attempting to install Zotero to my Fedora-30 template so that I can then use it in my personal template.

There is no RPM package for the application so I have to download the tar.bz2 file. I extracted in /opt and then copied the desktop file over to /usr/share/applications . I then ran the command in Dom0 to update the Fedora-30 appmenus. Then refreshed the appmenu in the personal appvm and the entry appeared and was added. However, when I click on the entry in the appmenu for the personal appvm, that program will not start. Is there a link from the personal appvm to the fedora-30 template that I'm missing? I've never added a program manually to a template vm or appvm before. Thanks for your help!

-- Jon

[awokd]

jonmch...@gmail.com wrote on 6/14/19 9:28 PM:

> Community,
>
> I am attempting to install Zotero to my Fedora-30 template so that I can then use it in my personal template.
>
> There is no RPM package for the application so I have to download the tar.bz2 file. I extracted in /opt and then copied the desktop file over to /usr/share/applications . I then ran the command in Dom0 to update the Fedora-30 appmenus.

You did this part in your template, then shut it down, right? And next,
booted up your AppVM and did the following? The sequence is important.

> Then refreshed the appmenu in the personal appvm and the entry appeared and was added. However, when I click on the entry in the appmenu for the personal appvm, that program will not start. Is there a link from the personal appvm to the fedora-30 template that I'm missing? I've never added a program manually to a template vm or appvm before. Thanks for your help!
>

You might have found it already, but see
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/managing-appvm-shortcuts/.

[jonmch...@gmail.com]

awokd,

Thanks for responding. I completed the process all over again from scratch, ensuring that the sequence was correct. I'm still getting the same result. Not sure what to do from here, but the feeling that there is something so simple that I'm missing is driving me nuts lol. I can use Zotero online but it's not as seamless without the desktop client. I'm using this for my dissertation.

-- Jon

[awokd]

jonmch...@gmail.com wrote on 6/15/19 10:51 PM:

> Thanks for responding. I completed the process all over again from scratch, ensuring that the sequence was correct. I'm still getting the same result. Not sure what to do from here, but the feeling that there is something so simple that I'm missing is driving me nuts lol. I can use Zotero online but it's not as seamless without the desktop client. I'm using this for my dissertation.

If you just want a quick and dirty way to do it, create a Standalone VM
based from a template. It will act like an ordinary VM then, so you'll
have to update it separately, etc.

[unman]

Look at the contents of the exec line in that desktop file.
Try changing it to:
bash -c "/ opt/Zotero_linux-x86_64/zotero -url %U"

Then update applications. Start the qube and make sure the exec line is
fine - should work properly now.

unman