Re: Jabref under linux-mint

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 08/29/2018 07:13 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
Slightly OT:
Is there somebody who uses Jabref as a reference manager under 
Linux-Mint successfully and could give me a hint how he/she succeeded? 
I am always getting

java -jar Jabref-4.3.1.jar

Error: Unable to access jarfile Jabref-4.3.1.jar

I tried under Linux-mint 18.3 Sylvia openjdk version "1.8.0_181", and  
Java SE Runtime environment of Oracle, and have set the Path in 
/etc/profile to

export JAVA_HOME=/home/wolfgang/java/jre-10.0.2
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Cheers,

Wolfgang

Wolfgang,

I use JabRef on the same setup (Mint 18.3, Oracle runtime) with no 
problems. I installed JabRef from the repositories (using Software 
Manager), which means I've got version 2.10. I don't know why the repos 
are so far behind.

In any case, I downloaded the 4.3.1 jar file just now and ran it 
successfully with exactly the same command line you used. I opened the 
terminal in the folder where the jar file was located. Is it possible 
that you are in a different directory and just need to supply the path 
to the jar file?

Paul