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To avoid crashs when opening PDF's install mendeleydesktop-bundled which packages Qt provided by the upstream.

For those who can't use Fcitx even after you install fcitx-qt5, this is caused by a wrong version of libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so. libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so should use the same version of Qt as mendeleydesktop.

To find which version of Qt mendeleydesktop is using, please execute qt strings libQt5Core.so.5 | grep "Qt 5". Then you will see the following output,

Qt 5.10.1 (x86_64-little_endian-lp64 shared (dynamic) release build; by GCC 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)) This is the QtCore library version Qt 5.10.1 (x86_64-little_endian-lp64 shared (dynamic) release build; by GCC 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6))

You can extract the corresponding libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so (/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforminputcontexts/) from an older version of https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/f/fcitx-qt5/. You need to find out which version of Qt is used for libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin by executing strings libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so|grep "Qt",

_ZN9QMetaType25registerConverterFunctionEPKN9QtPrivate25AbstractConverterFunctionEii ... Qt_5.10 ...

Then cp libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so.

For example, if you install mendeleydesktop 1.19.2-1, the correct version of libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so is in https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/f/fcitx-qt5/fcitx-qt5-1.2.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.

You can even compile your own Fcitx platforminputcontext plugin usinga specific version of Qt. Please refer to A case study: how to compile a Fcitx platforminputcontext plugin for a proprietary software that uses Qt 5 | CS Slayer

icu is included in qt5-webengine.

It should not matter since shared libs are used but did you try reinstalling mendeley? It works for me with updated icu.

Whats the output of: ldd /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64

Hi, after installation mendeley is crashing with the following error:

/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It looks like icu is a dependency which is not listed here. Also core is now at libicui18n.so.63.

What's the reason for bumping the pkgrel?

"native" mendeley package stayed the same and bundled package was added so I see no reason to bump pkgrel.

And also please update the pkgrel

@heavysink Thanks for the prompt reaction and thanks for the tip :)

To avoid crashs when opening PDF's install mendeleydesktop-bundled which packages Qt provided by the upstream.

Hi,

I have deleted the mendeleydesktop-bundle package.

A suggestion: the new version checking can be done by

curl -n https://www.mendeley.com/release-notes | grep -o 'Desktop v[0-9].*' | head -n 1 | sed 's/<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/li>//g' | sed 's/Desktop v//g'

This package crash whenever tried to open a pdf file. Meanwhile, I have tested the bundle package and it seems to work fine for me. Sure, It is a just a temporal solution while the Mendeley developers don't build the package with the Qt 5.11 libraries. But it is the one that will work for most of the users. I think that to build the bundled package will be enough to change a few lines in the PKGBUILD, namely no dependencies and update the checksums to the 1.19.2-2 files. Something like this:

pkgname=mendeleydesktop
pkgver=1.19.2
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="Academic software for managing and sharing research papers (desktop client). Includes all needed Qt5 libraries in order to avoid crashing while opens a file."
url=http://www.mendeley.com/release-notes/
arch=(i686 x86_64)
depends=()
license=(custom:mendeley_eula)
source_i686=("https://desktop-download.mendeley.com/download/linux/$pkgname-$pkgver-linux-i486.tar.bz2")
source_x86_64=("https://desktop-download.mendeley.com/download/linux/$pkgname-$pkgver-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2")
sha512sums_i686=('b8b8b291a2b2d3cf43ec96005f891b9acd73090c945252b0b22abbc71c631bd74c9cf600c3c5e2c75ee3784a3ac3d06d8d925b5a70a3e47e34901047f67ca587')
sha512sums_x86_64=('ddcbac4f863706f1226157a4528d89801502af6d5af105558ee1b3a5ecad4ba4c90ff64dffd822f485d45670c6ad54cae93f9a582a5bc82bc23e404c767aca40')

During this weekend I'll make 2 options for this package, native and bundled.