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: 0.000082
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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rychglenn commented on 2019-10-24 15:14 (UTC)

@akstrfn Anyone news about the @David01's error? I have the same.

akstrfn commented on 2019-10-17 09:37 (UTC)

I am not going to maintain this package anymore since I am switching to Zotero.

akstrfn commented on 2019-10-15 12:44 (UTC)

@David01 I'm busy this week so I'll try to fix the problem during the weekend.

David01 commented on 2019-10-15 12:42 (UTC)

@akstrfn I have added export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/qt to ~/.bashrc and sourced it. No successful results:

[david@david-pc ~]$ mendeleydesktop 
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
Failed to run mendeley:// link handler installer "/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh"
/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess --type=zygote --webengine-schemes=qrc:sLV --lang=en-US: symbol lookup error: /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess --type=zygote --webengine-schemes=qrc:sLV --lang=en-US: undefined symbol: _ZN7content20localtime_r_overrideEPKlP2tm, version Qt_5
/usr/bin/mendeleydesktop: line 4: 21790 Trace/breakpoint trap   (core dumped) /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64 "$@"

pychuang commented on 2019-10-14 16:29 (UTC) (edited on 2019-10-14 16:30 (UTC) by pychuang)

I don't know if I upgraded the system or did something, but suddenly I couldn't launch Mendeley Desktop. Some issues with the QT library.

In order to use Mendeley again, I have to manually set the runtime QT5 library path to the one included in this bundle, i.e.,

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/qt

But I don't recall I had to do manually set the path before.

David01 commented on 2019-10-14 13:41 (UTC)

After the latest update, mendeleydektop doesn't work:

Running mendeleydesktop on the terminal yields:

qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
Failed to run mendeley:// link handler installer "/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh"
/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess --type=zygote --webengine-schemes=qrc:sLV --lang=en-US: symbol lookup error: /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess --type=zygote --webengine-schemes=qrc:sLV --lang=en-US: undefined symbol: _ZN7content20localtime_r_overrideEPKlP2tm, version Qt_5
/usr/bin/mendeleydesktop: line 4:  1642 Trace/breakpoint trap   (core dumped) /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64 "$@"

NekoBuster commented on 2019-08-26 10:03 (UTC) (edited on 2019-08-26 10:06 (UTC) by NekoBuster)

It doesn't quit properly. When the GUI closes, the process keeps running and its CPU usage flies to 100%. There is a 1.19.5 version released by the upstream and they say some bugs are fixed. Any update plan?

xgdgsc commented on 2019-02-17 13:42 (UTC)

Thanks. Fixed.

jonathon commented on 2019-02-17 11:48 (UTC)

There may be a slight bug in the install-mendeley-link-handler.sh script (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/mendeley-aur-and-ld-library-errors/75931).

This should do the job:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 69ac243..80f8510 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ package_mendeleydesktop-bundled() {
     conflicts=('mendeleydesktop')
     cd "$pkgbase-$pkgver-linux-$CARCH"

-    sed -i 's/Exec=/&LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\/opt\/mendeleydesktop\/lib\/mendeleydesktop\/plugins\/platforms /' bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh
+    sed -i 's/Exec=/&env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\/opt\/mendeleydesktop\/lib\/mendeleydesktop\/plugins\/platforms /' bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh

     install -d "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgbase"
     cp -a bin lib share "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgbase/"

It won't replace an existing mendeleydesktop.desktop file but it will help for new users.