Package Base Details: mendeleydesktop

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/mendeleydesktop.git (read-only, click to copy)
Keywords: elsevier mendeley
Submitter: lpjhjdh
Maintainer: ReyJamonico
Last Packager: ali.molaei
Votes: 306
Popularity: 0.000039
First Submitted: 2009-06-10 18:28 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2021-02-08 08:39 (UTC)

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ReyJamonico commented on 2022-06-20 07:50 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-20 07:53 (UTC) by ReyJamonico)

I will maintain this until it stops working, but this package should be considered "legacy" and the new Reference Manager (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mendeley-reference-manager) preferred.

More Info: https://blog.mendeley.com/category/new-release-2/

akstrfn commented on 2018-10-02 15:21 (UTC) (edited on 2018-12-14 14:50 (UTC) by akstrfn)

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

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ecruzolivera commented on 2018-06-11 10:52 (UTC)

@xgdgsc but at least you can open a pdf inside mendeley

xgdgsc commented on 2018-06-10 02:35 (UTC)

@ecruzolivera I tried and still get the 100% CPU issue.

ecruzolivera commented on 2018-06-09 13:11 (UTC) (edited on 2018-06-09 13:15 (UTC) by ecruzolivera)

this was how i solve it:

tar xvf mendeleydesktop-1.19-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
cd mendeleydesktop-1.19-linux-x86_64/
rm INSTALL LICENSE README
sudo rm -rf /opt/mendeleydesktop/*
sudo cp -R * /opt/mendeleydesktop/

To the maintainer, thanks for doing this, really, because of people like you that care enough to invest time and effort, is why Arch is so f... good. And now a little suggestion:

So... I know that the nix way is to use the shared libraries because of the memory usage and all that... but but, i think that the nix way is also the KISS way, and just stop the libraries gymnastics, and only unpack the entire package in /opt/mendeley and KEEP the package original libraries that the Mendeley developers bundle in the tar file. Doing that will make this package much more maintainable. Regards

halfhorn commented on 2018-06-01 18:51 (UTC)

@a.salton I am having the same issue as @p1gd0g and your suggested work around unfortunately does not solve the pdf crashing issue. Downloading the generic version as @akstrfn suggested does work.

a.salton commented on 2018-06-01 17:42 (UTC) (edited on 2018-06-02 17:13 (UTC) by a.salton)

In my experience, commenting lines 24 to 26 and 42 to 45 from the PKGBUILD is enough to make it work using the bundled libraries, as a temporary workaround. EDIT: as @halfhorn pointed out, go with the generic version.

p1gd0g commented on 2018-05-30 10:18 (UTC)

@akstrfn Thanks for your work and explanation.

akstrfn commented on 2018-05-29 06:51 (UTC)

@p1gd0g no way atm when using shared libraries. Breakage occured when Qt 5.11 was pushed. So lets wait for CPU bugfix and hopefully they recompile with 5.11. The problem seems to be in their bundled PDF library which btw increased a lot in size in the last version.

You can always download mendeley generic linux and run it. It will add some stuff to you $HOME dir but you can clean that up when we push new version.

p1gd0g commented on 2018-05-29 01:06 (UTC)

Unable to open pdf. Same error on my laptop. Both are Manjaro. Any easy way to install last version?

akstrfn commented on 2018-05-27 17:22 (UTC)

I'm now able to reproduce the crash so in the next weeks I will check it. CPU bug has to be fixed upstream.

mendeley creates some stuff in $HOME (.local and .cache). You can find and erase the ones you dont want find ~ -iname "*mendeley*".

Zento commented on 2018-05-26 22:03 (UTC)

Running ./bin/mendeleydesktop from the sources and opening a PDF works. Afterwards, also running the desktop entry for Mendeley works. But opening mendeleydesktop from the command line reproduces the error. After deleting the sources, the desktop entry fails to start mendeley (Failed to execute child process [$HOME]/.local/share/mendeleydesktop" (No such file or directory)).

I have tried reinstalling it again, but it did not show any differences.

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