Feature changed by: Alberto Passalacqua (GreenGeeko) Feature #308261, revision 8 Title: Include Bibus, a bibliography tool that interacts with Openoffice via UNO Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) Description: OpenOffice lacks a decent bibliography support which is mandatory for scientific writing. Bibus is a python tool available for all platforms, i.e. Windows users can use the same tool when switching to Linux. It can interact with Openoffice via the UNO api, i.e. it does not only export its data, but inserts it into the OO document. It can even be used with a central database, i.e. for companies that want to share their bibliogrphic data. The project's website is: http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/ Discussion: #1: Jens Staal (staalmannen) (2009-12-08 10:51:49) This is a very good tool and I have just recently run into problems with version 1.5.1 which runs into a segmentation error on my OpenSuse 11.2 64-bit and rollback to the 1.4 version available for 11.0 does not work due to changes in the database. I am not smart enough to figure out how to debug it or make a proper bugreport about it. It is important that separate 32-bit and 64-bit packages are available since bibus need to point to /usr/lib/ooo3/program and /usr/lib64/ooo3/program respectively. Files to edit for respective architecture are: .../bibus/Setup/bibus.cfg .../bibus/bibus.cfg RPMs for other distributions do not work http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=bibus&submit=Search+...&system=&arch= #2: Jean-Sébastien Gosselin (jsgosselin) (2010-04-22 18:01:31) Bibus is a MUST have for me. I've put a lot of work into it. I'm new to openSuse, used to be on Ubuntu. The problem I came accross while trying to intall Bibus nearly discourage me to use openSuse. I managed to install it though and now I'm very happy with it. Here is how I did it on a fresh install of openSUSE (i586): 1)Installed "Make" program with YaST. 2)Installed python-wxGTK with YaST and I accepted all the dependencies. 3)I downloaded "bibus_1.5.1.tar.gz", extracted it and renamed the folder "bibus" 4)In a terminal, from the "bibus" folder path, I ran >sudo make install 5)I edited the /usr/local/share/bibus/bibus.cfg so that the first 4th lines looks like: python = /usr/bin/python oopath = /usr/lib/ooo3/program ooure = /usr/lib/ooo3/basis-link/ure-link/lib oobasis = /usr/lib/ooo3/basis- link/program So far, everything is working fine. Hope it can helps. JS + #3: Alberto Passalacqua (greengeeko) (2010-04-26 18:30:34) + I actually do not completely agree with this proposal, since there is + another tool that I think can deal with bibliographies better, and it + is Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ + Zotero is a plugin for firefox + a plugin for OpenOffice.org / + Microsoft Office. It allows citations to be directly saved with a + simple click on a wide variety of online databases once their web-page + is opened in Firefox. It's easy to store, organize, collect, and search + information. Additionally it is possible to store the file containing + the documents and taking notes about it. It is also possible to sync + data with other machines. + The plugin for OpenOffice allows a direct citation of the source with + pre-defined or customized citation styles. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308261