Jabref 5.3.1

[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.)
> 
> To run it, open a terminal and run the command "<path>/bin/JabRef" 
> (where <path> is the path to the extracted JabRef folder), or just open 
> the terminal in the bin folder and run "./JabRef". I got a lot of error 
> messages in the terminal when I tried it (Linux Mint), but it opened and 
> appeared to work okay.
> 
Thanks, Paul for your detailed advice. Will do so tomorrow.
Wolfgang