Mendeley with Fedora 16


Few months ago I wrote about my problems with running this very nice software on my Fedora 14.

After while, I've upgrade my Fedora to 15, next to 16 and recently I've noticed that Mendeley again have not worked.
What I've got on console is some memory pointer error:

[teodor@zuzia lib]$ mendeley
Running /home/teodor/download/apps/mendeleydesktop-1.1.3-linux-x86_64/bin/..//lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64
loaded the Generic plugin
QSharedPointer: pointer 0x260f550 already has reference counting

Google said that problem is related to the Qt library, again.. this time you can simply run mendeleydesktop with option that switch app to use internal version of library. I've modified running script and set this option on by add after line 199 this statement:

use_system_qt = False

That's all for a while... Mendeley starts but it shows similary error like in previous post.
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function d2i_X509
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function d2i_X509
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSLv3_client_method
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSL_CTX_new
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSL_library_init
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function ERR_get_error
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function ERR_error_string
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSLv3_client_method
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSL_CTX_new

This time solution is rather different. You need to install package openssl-devel:

su -c 'yum install openssl-devel' 

2 comments:

2A said...

I can't make that mendeley works :_(

Philipp said...

Thank you very much! You made my day. Now Mendeley works.