HOWTO: Bibus Breezy packages

**NeTo** · January 28th, 2006

From the Bibus homepage:
Bibus is a bibliographic database. As other such tools, Bibus allows to search, edit, sort you bibliographic records, etc. Bibus has however some features that makes its unique among opensource and even commercial bibliographic databases.

I have built the Bibus debian packages for Ubuntu Breezy, as in Breezy the OOo2 location is different from the one in Debian or Dapper.

Contents
1. Installation
2. Package Compilation (Not Required)

1. Installation
First you need to install the packages Bibus depends on. Open a terminal window and type:

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.6 python-uno

You need to install also a SQL engine.

If you want to use SQLite:
You need to add the bibus repository for the required packages. Run:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

And add the following line to the sources.list file:

Code:

## Bibus
deb http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio ./
deb-src http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio ./

To download and install the packages:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libsqliteodbc python-pysqlite2

Or if wou want use MySQL:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libmyodbc mysql-server mysql-common mysql-client python-mysqldb

After the packages are installed, type the following to correctly configure python-uno (otherwise the python pyuno module may fail to load):

Code:

sudo ldconfig -v /usr/lib/openoffice2/program

The next step is to download the Bibus packages. Type:

Code:

wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy/bibus/bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb
wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy/bibus/bibus-doc-en_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb

After downloading, you'll end up with 2 .deb files. To install them run:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb bibus-doc-en_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb

Now you are ready to use bibus. Type bibus in a terminal window, or run it from Applications->Office->Bibus bibliographic database

2. Package Compilation (Not Required)
If you want to compile bibus from source, download the following:

Code:

wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy-sources/bibus/bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1.diff.gz
wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy-sources/bibus/bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1.dsc
wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy-sources/bibus/bibus_1.2.0.orig.tar.gz

Then, run

Code:

dpkg-source -x bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1.dsc
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -nc -rsudo

After the build process is done, you will end up with two deb files, one containing bibus and the other its documentation.

**GrumpyBob** · February 3rd, 2006

Your download command doesn't work for me...

Robert

**NeTo** · February 3rd, 2006

Originally Posted by GrumpyBob

Your download command doesn't work for me...

Robert

My PC has been down for a few days because I'm doing a major hardware upgrade (which sadly hasn't turn out very well). The download will be down at least until tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenients.

**David Valentine** · February 4th, 2006

Thanks for this HowTo, NeTo. Once your server is back up, I'm looking forward to seeing if I can migrate away from ProCite. BTW, do you know of any good guides for transferring data from ProCite to Bibus?

**GrumpyBob** · February 4th, 2006

Originally Posted by NeTo

My PC has been down for a few days because I'm doing a major hardware upgrade (which sadly hasn't turn out very well). The download will be down at least until tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenients.

No problems - I look forward to installing the file!
And thanks in advance for making this available.

Robert

**bgalan** · February 6th, 2006

yeah, thanks a lot for this howto and hosting the file, NeTo. i also look forward to using this program; i'm writing my dissertation in humanities and i'm learning to use lyx, latex, bibtex, and, hopefully, bibus soon.
benjamin

**malmjako** · February 7th, 2006

What a great initiative, NeTo! It's a shame, though, that we can't get access to the files. If you send them to me I can put them up on a server at my university, which is available 24/7. (malmjako at the server student.chalmers.se)

**NeTo** · February 7th, 2006

Thank you all for your comments. I have sent you malmjako a mail with the files mentioned in the first post. I'll be still offline a few more days, so your offer has really came in handy. Thank you for your offering.