Jabref 5.3.1

[Herbert Voss]

Am 22.07.21 um 20:25 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
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> Am 22.07.21 um 20:12 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
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>> 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.)

First I deleted the old JabRef. Then I downloaded the new deb file
and with doubleclick on that file it will be installed by the install 
manager.
After that I can use jabref as usual.

Herbert




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>> 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
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> in bin is JabRef
> in lib is a folder runtime
>   which contains lib, conf, bin, legal as folders
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> where is JabRef.cfg ? >
> find -iname 'JabRef.cfg'
> ./lib/app/JabRef.cfg
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> why is it not found?
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> Wolfgang
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