Lucid after ubuntu is installed, the next is to install Mendeley Desktop to organize the files of reference that I have, both ebooks, papers, journals, and thesis and dissertation report.
Mendeley.com has provided this software repository for Ubuntu Linux distribution from Hardy to Lucid version. What should be done to install it is to add the address of the repository into your sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list). Add the following line in the file (adjust the version of Ubuntu that is used). I’m using Lucid, so the line “deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_10.04 /” is added.
- # Hardy/8.04
- deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_8.04 /
- # Intrepid/8.10
- deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_8.10 /
- # Jaunty/9.04
- deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_9.04 /
- # Karmic/9.10
- deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_9.10 /
- #Lucid/10.04:
- deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_10.04 /
Update / download a list of available packages from sources.list and install mendeleydesktop. Mendeley requires qt4 as window manager, some of which are available from the repository Mendeley. Total space required is 117MB. This package will be treated as untrusted version (can we ignore it because it was convinced that the package is installed). Here’s a snapshot of it:
- root@ubuntu-kompie:/home/didik# aptitude update
- root@ubuntu-kompie:/home/didik# aptitude install mendeleydesktop
- Reading package lists… Done
- Building dependency tree
- Reading state information… Done
- Reading extended state information
- Initializing package states… Done
- The following NEW packages will be installed:
- libmng1{a} libqt4-dbus{a} libqt4-mendeley-dbus{a} libqt4-mendeley-designer{a} libqt4-mendeley-network{a} libqt4-mendeley-qt3support{a} libqt4-mendeley-script{a} libqt4-mendeley-sql{a} libqt4-mendeley-sql-sqlite{a} libqt4-mendeley-svg{a} libqt4-mendeley-webkit{a} libqt4-mendeley-xml{a} libqt4-mendeley-xmlpatterns{a} libqt4-xml{a} libqtcore4{a} libqtcore4-mendeley{a} libqtgui4-mendeley{a} mendeleydesktop qt4-mendeley-qtconfig{a}
- 0 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
- Need to get 44.9MB of archives. After unpacking 117MB will be used.
- Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
- WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!
- Untrusted packages could compromise your system’s security. You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that this is what you want to do.
- libqt4-mendeley-script libqt4-mendeley-qt3support libqt4-mendeley-designer libqt4-mendeley-dbus libqtcore4-mendeley libqtgui4-mendeley qt4-mendeley-qtconfig libqt4-mendeley-xmlpatterns libqt4-mendeley-sql-sqlite mendeleydesktop libqt4-mendeley-webkit libqt4-mendeley-network libqt4-mendeley-sql libqt4-mendeley-svg libqt4-mendeley-xml
- Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
- To continue, enter “Yes”; to abort, enter “No”: Yes
During the retrieving software packages with apt-get, aptitude can multi download several packages available from multiple sites at once simultaneously, for example, libqt4-core will be downloaded from the repository along with libqtcore4 ftp.itb-mendeley from mendeley repository 
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Once installed, Mendelay shortcuts can be run by clicking on the menu Applications -> Education -> Mendeley Desktop.
