zotero standalone script in Linux not passing the "--url" parameter about zotero-standalone-build HOT 4 CLOSED

Despite its name, run-zotero.sh isn't actually what you should be using for starting Zotero. (It's a repackaged Mozilla script, and I'm actually not sure why we bundle it — @simonster would be able to say more.) But just use the main binary, zotero, and command-line flags (e.g., -jsconsole) will work. (zotero://select not working at startup is a separate matter, as you note.)

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Aha, understood. Thanks. I think some Linux distros use the run-zotero.sh or equivalent by default as the thing to run (and as a user of the tar.bz2, its pressence lead me to believe that was the thing to run too). For the sake of avoiding confusion, I've updated my last
entry in the zotero forum to reflect this info.

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Running /usr/lib/zotero/zotero works, but linking /usr/bin/zotero to /usr/lib/zotero/zotero and running /usr/bin/zotero doesn't. It gives Could not read application.ini error.

Intead, linking /usr/bin/zotero to /usr/lib/zotero/run-zotero.sh and running /usr/bin/zotero works.

run-zotero.sh seems to have a function.

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That still doesn't mean that run-zotero.sh is the thing to run, though — just that the main binary determines the path to application.ini based on its own location and therefore doesn't work symlinked. We don't create the Linux packages, so run scripts aren't really our domain, but it'd be trivial for a package to create a run script that passes on command-line arguments if necessary:

#!/bin/sh
INSTALL_PATH=/usr/bin/zotero

cd $INSTALL_PATH
./zotero $*

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