On 7/22/21 2:25 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
Am 22.07.21 um 20:12 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
Am 22.07.21 um 17:32 schrieb Paul A. Rubin:
On 7/22/21 9:31 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
There is a new Jabref (5.3.1) available under
https://www.fosshub.com/JabRef.html
There is a download for Ubuntu+Debian
and a Linux portable.
I wanted to try the latter, but don't know how to run it.
Could somebody advice me?
Wolfgang
Download the archive file and extract it, which will create a folder
named JabRef which in turn contains bin and lib folders. Put that
folder wherever you want it. (Since this is the portable version, I
suspect you might want it on a thumb drive.)
Strange:
~/Downloads/JabRef/bin$ ./JabRef
Error opening "/home/wolfgang/Downloads/JabRef/lib/app/JabRef.cfg"
file: No such file or directory
??
I am on Debian 11
Could the existing older JabRef be the cause?
Wolfgang
The JabRef contains two folders,
bin
and lib
in bin is JabRef
in lib is a folder runtime
which contains lib, conf, bin, legal as folders
where is JabRef.cfg ? >
find -iname 'JabRef.cfg'
./lib/app/JabRef.cfg
why is it not found?
Wolfgang
Strange indeed. I do not encounter that error on my system (Linux Mint,
which is Ubuntu-based and pretty compatible with Debian), with the
extracted program in exactly the same folder (~/Downloads). I have
JabRef 3.8.2 installed, and it does not interfere with launching the
portable version.
You might try shifting the terminal to the ~/Downloads/JabRef folder and
running "bin/JabRef", but I suspect the same error will occur.
A nonprinting control character embedded in the path might cause the
file not found error, but it is very hard to see how one might get into
the path.
You could also try copying the JabRef folder to /tmp and repeat the
experiment there. If running ./JabRef in /tmp/JabRef/bin works, a stray
character in the path becomes more plausible.
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