How to Install Bibfilex on Ubuntu 16.04

To Install Bibfilex on Ubuntu 16.04

Bibfilex is a free and open-source bibliographic manager for GNU/Linux, Windows and OS X. It' s useful to create and to manage archives of bibliographical items (books, articles, etc.) with possible attachments of any kind according to Biblatex structure and rules, even if it can be used also with a wordprocessor like Writer or Word. Bibfilex lets you to carry out targeted searches in a single field or between all elements. It is really simple to install Bibfilex and in this tutorial, you' ll learn about the method to install Bibfilex on Ubuntu 16.04.

Installing Bibfilex

Before you begin with the installation process, you need to download the bibfilex package using the wget command.

root@linuxhelp11:~# wget https://f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/bibfilex/download/bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb
--2017-12-15 01:21:05--  https://f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/bibfilex/download/bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb
Resolving f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com (f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com)... 74.125.24.137, 2404:6800:4003:c03::89
Connecting to f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com (f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com)|74.125.24.137|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://sites.google.com/site/bibfilex/download/bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb?attredirects=0 [following]
--2017-12-15 01:21:05--  https://sites.google.com/site/bibfilex/download/bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb?attredirects=0
Resolving sites.google.com (sites.google.com)... 172.217.26.174, 2404:6800:4007:801::200e
Connecting to sites.google.com (sites.google.com)|172.217.26.174|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/bibfilex/download/bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb?attachauth=ANoY7com_JSgCyjd0BC001lxuoXNO0tjCQ8tRhcnvV1FIJwCewsu5XPxtdNKmgRW1xbqFJP3IqcRrJUphhUXR7G2ns3nu5u2RyrkaNw3qRQRAVHamv9tMd-7m6BKGiR-r0zYzIGCDiZCuE6s_Kq7lZEOCrSC9bjpADAIShjSPof9D4CyvY4qcWyR8ggVkKtlNeX3mvqogs7oeHa_13Q3VX_gb2_PBbvV1R31MQcuZWelaXx59qpsTxRngSURD-rYCxl7kvCvvaPO& attredirects=0 [following]
--2017-12-15 01:21:06--  https://f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/bibfilex/download/bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb?attachauth=ANoY7com_JSgCyjd0BC001lxuoXNO0tjCQ8tRhcnvV1FIJwCewsu5XPxtdNKmgRW1xbqFJP3IqcRrJUphhUXR7G2ns3nu5u2RyrkaNw3qRQRAVHamv9tMd-7m6BKGiR-r0zYzIGCDiZCuE6s_Kq7lZEOCrSC9bjpADAIShjSPof9D4CyvY4qcWyR8ggVkKtlNeX3mvqogs7oeHa_13Q3VX_gb2_PBbvV1R31MQcuZWelaXx59qpsTxRngSURD-rYCxl7kvCvvaPO& attredirects=0
Connecting to f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com (f8dcbe8b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com)|74.125.24.137|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2072778 (2.0M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘ bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb’ 

bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8. 100%[===================> ]   1.98M   847KB/s    in 2.4s    

2017-12-15 01:21:09 (847 KB/s) - ‘ bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb’  saved [2072778/2072778]

Once it is downloaded, you shall start with the installation of Bibfilex by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp11:~# dpkg -i bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package bibfilex.
(Reading database ... 175420 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack bibfilex-gtk_1.2.8.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bibfilex (1.2.8.0) ...
Setting up bibfilex (1.2.8.0) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...