Install Zotero on CachyOS

What should I do after installing Zotero?

1. Open Zotero from your app menu.
2. Or run zotero in a terminal.
3. Run pacman -Qi zotero to see the installed version and the optional dependencies.

How do I update or remove Zotero?

Update:

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What is Zotero?

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

Package description: A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Reviews of Zotero on CachyOS

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zotero/zotero · ★ 15,826 stars · last commit Nov 1, 2026

Real issues opened by users on the project's GitHub, shown as written with a link to each one. 10 most reacted issues opened in the last two years plus the 5 newest issues, bots, pull requests, non English and political posts skipped, capped at 15 per repo. Fetched Nov 1, 2026.

1. Saving from ScienceDirect leads to a captcha loopOpen

   Report: When saving from ScienceDirect and hitting a captcha we show our viewer which allows the users to complete the captcha and then lets us fetch the PDF. About a month ago this broke most likely due to changes on CF side. In my testing you also get the same kind of captcha…

   @adomasven · Mar 24, 2025 · 16 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

2. Light and dark themes for reader contentClosed

   @dstillman @yexingsha @AbeJellinek As I’m working on a dynamic dark mode for PDF view that supports custom background and foreground colors, automatically adjusts other colors for optimal contrast, and even works with scanned papers, I think this is a good chance to introduce…

   @mrtcode · Dec 20, 2024 · 7 reactions · 9 comments · View on GitHub

3. Reader reference popupOpen

   I now have a prototype of the reference popup that allows users to quickly view the abstract of an in-text citation, add the item to their library, or open it if it already exists. 1. Hover over an in-text citation to open a popup. 2. A list of raw reference texts is shown, with…

   @mrtcode · Mar 21, 2025 · 6 reactions · 24 comments · View on GitHub

4. Stop embedding abstracts in word processor documentsOpen

   It's hard to imagine that these huge field codes don't have a performance or reliability penalty, for very little gain. We already don't do this on Google Docs and have had almost no complaints. The very few annotated-bibliography styles (2 in the official repo?) will still work…

   @dstillman · Mar 26, 2025 · 3 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

5. Show more detailed reasons for plugin incompatibilityOpen

   Show more detailed reasons for plugin incompatibility in the console

   @windingwind · Feb 11, 2026 · 3 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

6. Toggling formatting with keyboard shortcuts doesn't work in the comment/text fields when the cursor is placed without any text selectedClosed

   It was working in Zotero 6.

   @mrtcode · Nov 4, 2024 · 2 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

7. Snapshot: Support reader mode?Closed

   I think this is a good idea. We would probably need to modify one of the existing open-source reader libraries (Mercury Parser, Mozilla Readability, or whatever) to maintain a mapping between positions in the output text and input DOM nodes in order to support annotations.

   @AbeJellinek · Jan 23, 2025 · 2 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

8. Add new item fieldsClosed

   @dstillman · Jul 30, 2025 · 2 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

9. Zotero Reader rendering too slowOpen

   The reader of Zotero seems to be rendering the PDF too slow. It always takes a few seconds to render the PDF after I try to scroll quickly for a large PDF file. This is not a problem when I use other PDF readers like Adobe Acrobat Reader or PDFgear. Zotero version: 7.0.9-beta.5…

   @Fanchengyan · Nov 2, 2024 · 2 reactions · 4 comments · View on GitHub

10. Reader: Don't zoom when pressing Command after scrollingOpen

    Due to inertial scrolling Doesn't happen in, e.g., Firefox

    @dstillman · Nov 18, 2024 · 1 reactions · 2 comments · View on GitHub

11. Citations keep their insertion-time font after paragraph style changesOpen

    Is there anything we can do to make it so that paragraph style changes affect citations too?

    @dstillman · Nov 1, 2026 · 0 comments · View on GitHub

12. A collection whose `id` equals its library's `id` cannot be dragged to the library rootOpen

    @AbeJellinek · Oct 21, 2026 · 0 comments · View on GitHub

13. Support async item tree (vtable) cell updateOpen

    Now that we (will) have plugins running in fully async data APIs in the sandbox, rendering based on data (items, etc) should also be async, ie. the item tree API dataProvider/renderCell call. We currently had workaround to try best providing data sync in the hook, but still it…

    @windingwind · Oct 21, 2026 · 2 comments · View on GitHub

14. Add "View on PubMed" / "View on PubMed Central" to Locate menu when then there's a PMID/PMCIDOpen

    @dstillman · Oct 17, 2026 · 0 comments · View on GitHub

15. Public API for open readers and the current page of a readerOpen

    Plugins that work with the PDF the user is reading need two things that are only reachable through private members today: 1. finding the open reader(s) of an attachment, and 2. the page the user is looking at right now. We ask for a small public API for both. SeekChat (a plugin…

    @jannefleischer · Sep 30, 2026 · 0 comments · View on GitHub