I installed linux mint yesterday (I am a novice). When I installed zotero via the applications manager, there wasn't a plugin for libreoffice that I could find. There seems to be one available for linux but I can't find anything to download on the zotero site. Can anyone tell me how I can install the plugin? Thank you very much!
After visiting many forums, none of which described all the steps, I eventually figured out how to get Zotero to work with LibreOffice (LO). I am sure somebody will find the following helpful.
Make sure you have a JRE installed. In LO, go to Tools>Options>Advanced. Make sure you have the "Use Java runtime environment" box checked, and there is a JRE installed. If there isn't one (as was the case in my fresh Linux install), open terminal and install the latest JRE: sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre. Check your installation worked with java -version. Restart LO, and check your JRE. As of August 2020, the JRE is Private Build v1.8.0_265.
Next, make sure LO has java-common installed: sudo apt-get install libreoffice-java-common
Install Zotero. If you did the above, the Zotero plug in should work. If it doesn't, you can manually add the plug-in from LO or try to re-install it from Zotero. At this point, there should be plenty of resources for you to figure out how to perform either.
My current issue, because I did not perform the following steps in order, Zotero is working but now the icons are gone in LO. Instead of Icons, I see the word "Add/Edit Citation", "Add/Edit Bibliography", etc. In Windows 10, the solution is found in this thread. Does anybody know how to fix this compatibility issue between Zotero/LO in Linux?
I have had the same trouble. This is my system:
- Linux Mint 13 with MATE 64 bit
- Zotero Standalone 3.0.8
- Libreoffice 3.5.4.2 (included with Linux Mint).
That configuration would not work with Zotero. The error was "openoffice.org could not communicate with Zotero."
Solution
Use package manager to completely remove Libreoffice.
Download the latest version from documentfoundation.org.
Unzip it and install it per the Readme text file. It will ask you to open the Libreoffice folders with your terminal, then run
sudo dpkg -i *.debtwo times - once in the DEBS folder and once in the Desktop Integration folder.
Hope this helps! Like you I had no luck with this at all until I did this re-install of Libreoffice.
I had the same problem after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10. Actually the solution is quite simple. Just go to the menu TOOLS>OPTIONS and search for the java section. There select the JRE installed, press OK, restart and thats all.
Hello, I'm on fedora linux and want to use zotero with libreoffice writer. All software is updated to latest. If I go to the "cite" tab in zotero settings, it recognizes that libreoffice does not have the add-in installed and there is a button "install libreoffice add-in". However, pressing this button does nothing. So I might have to install it manually using the zotero documentation
I also cannot find where the add-in is located in the file manager. I found a zotero folder in .var/app/org.zotero.Zotero, but I don't know if that's the right folder to find the add-in.
Does anyone know how I can install it? Thanks.
Could you share any recent guide How to install Zotero plugin in LibreOffice in Ubuntu