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Installing Mendeley on Ubuntu

Its not very difficult to install Mendeley Desktop on the Ubuntu platform , as Mendeley team was generous enough to provide repository for the Ubuntu desktop.However, you would have to first register at their website (http://www.mendeley.com) , to take full advantage of Mendeley Web.

To install Mendeley Desktop follow these steps :

1. Open the terminal window and issue the following command to add the Mendeley repositories.

echo "deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_9.04 /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

and , we update the repository information on the local system, by issuing the following command :

sudo apt-get update

If you are running a earlier version if Ubuntu , I would recommend you look at this page and find the right repository.

2. Once you have added the repository , issue the following command to install the mendeley desktop :

sudo apt-get install mendeleydesktop

Once you are done installing Mendeley desktop , you can launch Mendeley from ( Applications -> Education -> Mendeley Desktop ).