Is it possible to add the FOSS reference programme Zotero in official the Fedora repo? Or otherwise build the recent version for others like me in COPR?
Although @pgaskin has an old version of Zotero already, (s)he didn’t reply to my request for an update two months ago. I thought that isn’t an issue, because it sound simple to just build it myself. However, it seems not so for me, and others might profit from the ‘official’ Fedora build as well. Beside, if something goes wrong with my build, I still have to ask for help (again), as I don’t have any clue how to fix it. I can be very technical, but coding is something that I can’t do.
There is indeed a Flathub edition of Zotero available, which is set up with a ‘disk of 16gb’, so that some extensions and apps do not work properly with Zotero-flathub.
Therefore I’m asking if it is possible to add Zotero either to the official repo of Fedora, or build it in COPR .
As someone with a degree in Alpha studies, I could say “Give me persons, and I’ll understand them, but give me code, I’m lost.”
Anyhow, is it possible to build Zotero into a rpm file for the not so techy persons like me? Otherwise I’ll contact the makers of the Flathub edition.
Have you considered using the tarball from the zotero.org website? I just downloaded and installed it and it seems to work fine. I haven’t used Zotero myself in years, so I can’t really exercise it that much, but it seems good.
That is not a problem, I had to find out myself too. For my case, I use ZotFile to sort +250gb of date in a more human readable way. With the result to find and select a file, doc, etc by hand without Zotero. This is very handy, when I would like to upload a file, when drag-drop from Zotero does not work. When using the Flathub version of Zotero with ZotFile, I wasn’t able to directly go to ~/home. Maybe this is fixed by now, I do not know it yet.
Hum, I’vent used tarballs, thus I have to give that a try too. Something for the summer vacation.
As you can see below @qulogic , within Zotero (Flatpak) the disk of your computer ‘is 16,8GB’, instead of the 1TB in my case. When I need something from my computer (like a file, extension, etc), I have to move around this ‘bug/feature’. Otherwise Zotero (Flatpak) works just fine, including access ~/Documents, etc. A work around for adding a file from a new USB, it to drag-drop, or mount the USB in ~/Documents.
Yes, but be aware that giving All system file permission to an application, you lose the advantage of flatpak sandboxing feature. I think that it would be better to give access only to specific directories if you need to.
