Installation

- 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