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' 

Mendeley with Fedora 14 on 64 bit

I was looking for tool which apart of storing citation reference, will also index my pdf files on hard disk and gives some interface to search for articles, organize them in some groups and  Mendeley do all of this tasks. It is a very useful academic reference tool for organize your scientific articles in one place. What is more, pdf reader has tool for making annotation in pdf and after that can export pdf with those additional information.

Mendeley has got also web interface arrange in the way of social application, so there is a list of your friends, groups, some kind of twitter like tool.  The user can also create own profile with some information. What is more interesting, is the synchronization between desktop application and web application so it can be use to share data with co-workers.

Problems with Mendeley on Fedora 14 64-bit

After switched to Fedora, I had problem with using Mendeley. First problem was with missing libssl.so.0

/home/teodor/download/apps/mendeleydesktop-0.9.9-rc1-linux-x86_64/bin/../lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


simple solution is to link library from /usr/lib/ to lib/ in Mendeley dir.

ln -s /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 lib/libssl.so.0


One remark, if your system is 32-bit, you need to link from /usr/lib/ instead of lib64
Second problem is with Qt library. Mendeley throw errors when it tries to connect to the server

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
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
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
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSL_library_init
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function ERR_get_error
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function ERR_error_string

Solution is very simple, you need to remove Qt files from lib/ in Mendeley directory. After that Mendeley will start to using Qt libraries from your system instead of those distributed with it.

rm lib/libQt*


Enjoy using Mendeley