I would like to see zotero included as standard (extra) package, currently available on AUR: Zotero | Your personal research assistant Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research. It is the only FOSS software f…

It’s also available as flatpak (but the flatpak is tagged as unverified, meaning that it wasn’t packed on Flathub by the developer team)

[image] captaindet: I regard it as essential for any researcher using linux. The main advantages of Zotero are the no cost and the licencing being compatible with GNU Linux; I recall it being quite useful for a period of my life. The application obviously has it’s uses in Academia, but wheth…

The package (at version 9.0) is included in the Chaotic-aur repository. IF you add that one then you can install it as a binary as if it were in the standard repos.

Note however, chaotic is unsupported. I would advise against adding it as a repo, unless one knows what one is doing and does not rely on the forum for support. The problem is an inexperienced user can easily install other libraries versions on update and completely bork the system. So better use th…

[image] captaindet: I would like to see zotero included as standard (extra) package, currently available on AUR: If the package gets included into the Arch distribution it will also be in Manjaro. To get packages from the AUR into Arch Voting for packages - Arch User Repository - Ar…

[image] jofi: This sounds as if the Chaotic-aur would be an extension of the Arch distribution? I think this would be a huge misunderstanding – the more so for Manjaro. Chaotic AUR is a user-created repository with precompiled AUR packages. Technically, you can add it to /etc/pacman.conf as …

@soundofthunder yes i know it is in AUR - i am using zotero-bin for years and don’t remember ever having a problem with it. this is, however, not the topic here: AUR is officially advised gainst it always surprised me that such a good, essential FOSS package is not part of the official repos @jo…

[image] scotty65: The AUR isn’t officially supported by Manjaro :backhand_index_pointing_up: Nor Arch itself. @captaindet Especially see the first red warning box on the (apparently recently updated) documentation in the Wiki link posted above.

The problem with including an application in the official repository is maintenance. Manjaro team does not have enough manpower to take on the maintenance of new applications. While AUR can be intimidating and insecure for the green rookie - the suggestion to use ChaoticAUR is even worse and outri…

Request for inclusion of Zotero

Feedback Feature Request

scotty65 20 August 2026 23:00 10

Not really - it is more a “user beware” advice.

The AUR isn’t officially supported by Manjaro, which means that users cannot expect help from the Manjaro team or the forum if an AUR package doesn’t install or work (or breaks something) on their system.