Installation

Linux

- Download latest release on https://www.fosshub.com/JabRef.html . Pick “Download JabRef Platform independent runnable JAR”

- (if you want an older release: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases)

- copy it where you want to install it, for instance /opt/jabref/JabRef-X.Y.jar

- in the same folder, create a file named “jabref” with the following content:

java -jar /opt/jabref/JabRef-X.Y.jar &

- make it executable:

chmod +x /opt/jabref/jabref

Now, for Ubuntu (and possibly others), create the following file:

[Desktop Entry] #Encoding=UTF-8 Name=JabRef GenericName=Reference Manager Comment=GUI for editing BibTex bibliographies Exec=/opt/jabref/jabref Icon=jabref Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Office;Database; MimeType=text/x-bibtex;

- Find yourself a nice icon and put it in “/usr/share/pixmaps/jabref.png”

- Done

Windows

Mac

Commodore 64