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I download the tar.bz file from the home page of zotero, extract it and run the file 'run-zotero.sh', but it open zotero rather than install it. How to install it? Any help or suggestion will be appreciated!

Josh Pinto
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Eden Harder
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I suggest you add a ppa so that the program gets updated regularly:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:smathot/cogscinl

Say yes/press enter to accept any requests.

sudo apt-get update

wait for it to complete, then:

sudo apt-get install zotero-standalone

This will install the program.

Boluc Papuccuoglu
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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/download/apt-get/install.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install zotero

For additional information about the provided packages, see the README file.

Other answers should be considered obsolete, Sebastiaan Mathot's packages being no longer maintained.

Nicolas Girard
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This project is designed to automate installation. It worked for me with 13.04. To install it, run the following in your terminal: 

wget https://raw.github.com/smathot/zotero_installer/master/zotero_installer.sh -O /tmp/zotero_installer.sh
chmod +x /tmp/zotero_installer.sh
/tmp/zotero_installer.sh

and answer the questions. If you want it to be installed globally, you will need sudo on the last command:

sudo /tmp/zotero_installer.sh
Ian Hincks
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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 of the techniques from other answers).

To install:

snap install zotero-snap
BeastOfCaerbannog
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moo
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I recently installed Zotero on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

This is what I have done:

  • First I downloaded the tarball from the Zotero Download page, and extracted its contents to a folder named Zotero_linux-x86_64 in ~/Downloads.
  • Then I ran the following commands in the terminal:
sudo mv ~/Downloads/Zotero_linux-x86_64/* /opt/zotero/
sudo /opt/zotero/set_launcher_icon
ln -s /opt/zotero/zotero.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/zotero.desktop

That's it. The installation is completed.

raf
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I have searched and came to know that , there only standalone Zotero PPA not yet made for Ubuntu 13.04 . you can run it as you've done with the script upto PPA made.

but Ubuntu have a good Documentation for Zotero that can help you to get more information on usage of it.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Zotero

Raja G
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I found a help here https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-zotero-in-ubuntu/

The steps in the terminal are

  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:smathot/cogscinl

Type your password and press ENTER when asked.

  1. sudo apt-get update

  2. sudo apt-get install zotero-standalone

This will install Zotero

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RYAN REGO
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The zotero installation page has decent instructions but they should have supplied the commands. Below are the commands I used (assuming the downloads folder is where your downloaded tar ball ended up):

cd /opt/
sudo mkdir zotero
cd ~/Downloads/
sudo tar -xf Zotero-6.0.9_linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C /opt/zotero/
cd /opt/zotero/Zotero_linux-x86_64/
sudo ./set_launcher_icon
ln -s /opt/zotero/Zotero_linux-x86_64/zotero.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/zotero.desktop

A quick script could be made from these simple commands if desired.

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