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Manuel Sánchez
Asked: 2020-08-28 02:52:49 +0800 CST

install Mendeley desktop

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I had Mendeley desktop on Ubuntu 18.04 and previous versions. It runned perfectly. Now I have the 20.04.1 Ubuntu version and I'm not able to install it. After downloading it from the Mendeley page and trying to install it appears a message: There is a missing file.

Thankyou for your help.

software-installation mendeley

1 Answers

  1. You have to install some dependendent packages:

    sudo apt-get install gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 \
gconf2-common libgconf-2-4 libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal \
libpython2.7-stdlib python-is-python2 python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal

    But to keep problem reproducible I would recommend to install deb-packaged version instead:

    cd ~/Downloads
wget https://desktop-download.mendeley.com/download/apt/pool/main/m/mendeleydesktop/mendeleydesktop_1.19.4-stable_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./mendeleydesktop_1.19.4-stable_amd64.deb

    as it does this for you and will install desktop-shortcut with icon.

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