On 29.11.2016 15:05, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
I am using Jabref for my lyx work (debian). The version I use (2.10)
does not support the medline any more.
Wolfgang,
I, too, use JabRef with LyX; it's great! I'm using JabRef-3.7 and ...
Thanks, Rich,
but Jabref-3.7 is the trouble. I have it installed already and used it
all the time, but it is not supporting medline any more, which I used to
use and need for fetching references from the web.
Wolfgang
I apparently need Java 8 for it -JRE or JDK are offered, which should go
in /opt. Which one is recommendable? None is given in synaptic. And
how do
I > unpack the JRE or JDK into /opt? Do I extract it first on my
home/download and copy the folder as root into it?
I'm using openjdk-8u91_b14 on Slackware. I recommend it (or Oracle's
Java
JDK) over the limited JRE version as it gives you more capabilities and
storage space is generally not an issue.
How do I install jabref-3.7? Unpacking it gives me a lot of
folders/files,
but I can't find a help||
I don't know Debian or its derivatives, so I suggest that you go to the
download Web page <https://www.fosshub.com/JabRef.html>, select the
second
option, "Download JabRef Platform independent runnable JAR," and
deposit the
download in /opt/. You'll have /opt/JabRef-3.7.jar.
To run it, I have a simple shell script (called jabref.sh):
#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/JabRef/
java -jar JabRef-3.7.jar
cd
No muss, no bother.
HTH,
Rich