Bibus is a bibliographic database whose "ultimate" goal is to have an opensource bibliographic software that will allow easy formatting (and reformatting) of the bibliographic index in OpenOffice.org Writer.
- entirely written in python, using the cross-platform wxWidget library
- there is an official Debian package available
aimed at UbuntuScientists
Installation
For Ubuntu Karmic users, bibus is available in the repository. For earlier releases, you still have to do some manual work.
Install bibus on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04
This paragraph is a modified copy of document in bibus wiki. http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Installation#Ubuntu
Add here to make it more convenient for user who wants to install bibus.
- Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
Note - You'll need to use sudo command to add content to this file i.e. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
## Bibus deb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio ./ deb-src http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio ./
- Download the public key with the following command:
wget -q http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio/pmartino.gpgkey -O- | sudo apt-key add -
- apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install bibus libsqliteodbc python-pysqlite2 python-wxgtk2.6 python-uno
Install bibus on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06
* add to your apt repositories list (Synaptic/config or in /etc/apt/sources.list) the line :
* install 'bibus' * start bibus, Help/first connection : setup connection
for MySQL dbm
* create eg. bibus table and bibus user * create bibus db schema (table structure) by executing part of /usr/share/bibus/db_models/mysql_41.sql
Install bibus 1.1.1-1 on Ubuntu breezy 5.10
- download the package :
- install manually bibus_1.1.1-1 :
- sudo dpkg -i --force-all bibus_1.1.1-1_all.deb
- problem : the package is broken for next upgrades
See also