# Install Zotero


<https://www.zotero.org/support/installation> > Linux Official Tarball:

> Download the tarball, extract the contents, and run zotero from that directory to start Zotero.

Download tarball from <https://www.zotero.org/download/>. To install the tarball accordingto <https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Zotero/>:


```sh
tar -xvf Downloads/Zotero-5.0.96_linux-x86_64.tar
```

To launch Zotero simply call the start script directly:

```
cd
Zotero_linux-x86_64/zotero &
```

If you launch Zotero the first time Zotero will detect that the Firefox launcher isn't installed. It will open the according page <https://www.zotero.org/start>. Push the button "install".

Zotero also offers to install the libre office connector: do it!


## Zotero Firefox connector

Toolbar Button nicht sichtbar? Lösung:


> If the button doesn't appear to the right of the address bar, you can find it either in the Extensions menu (opened via a puzzle-piece button to the right of other toolbar buttons) or the overflow menu (opened via a “»” button to the right of your other toolbar buttons). If the button appears in the Extensions menu, click the gear icon and select Pin to Toolbar to keep it in the toolbar. 
> - https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/no_toolbar_button :

## Zotero's Better BibTeX

Enhance Zotero with <https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/>: Follow the installation instructions from <https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/installation/> > latest release:


* Save file `zotero-better-bibtex-6.7.122.xpi` (as of 2023-09-28) e.g. to `Downloads` ...
* start Zotero, and import this file: Zotero > Tools > Add-ons > Install Add-on from File >  select `zotero-better-bibtex-6.7.122.xpi` > 
* Zotero wants you to restart Zotero: do it!

You will find that Zotero has allocated the new directory `~/Zotero`: Include this directory to your list of directories which are backuped daily ;-) . To learn where your data reside read <https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data>.


TBD: Export
* File > Export > Format: BetterBibTeX
* Keep Updated: Yes!
* suggested location in the dsci-lab: ~/b/bib/BetterBibtexExport.bib 


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Zotero allows you to link to your own files within your base (i.e. home) directory. Allocate a directory where you would like to store literature you download from the web. I myself e.g. use this location: 

```sh
/home/data/a/l2/linked_zotero_files
```

(`/home/data/a/l2` is a location which gets a weekly backup, as opposed e.g. to `/home/data/a/l`, which holds self made data and thus gets backups on a daily basis).

Tell the location of your own linked_zotero_files - folder to Zotero:
* Zotero > Erweitert > Dateien und Ordner > Basisverzeichnis für verknüpfte Dateianhänge > Auswählen > `/home/data/a/l2/linked_zotero_files`

(Hint: Due to a Zotero bug (as of Nov 2020) this directory *must not* start with the string "zotero").

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