Mendeley Desktop won't install on ubuntu 16.04

Question

Mendeley Desktop simply fails to install on Ubuntu 16.04. I have followed all the instructions here. Ubuntu software launches when I click the download and I hit "Install" but then nothing happens.

Another poster also had trouble with Mendeley and 16.04. As suggested by answers there, I ran

sudo apt-get install libqtsvg4-perl libqtwebkit4

and

sudo apt install qt4-dev-tools

to no avail. When I type

mendeleydesktop

in the terminal, the output is:

mendeleydesktop: command not found

Solution

I've just installed mendeley downloading te package directly from the website https://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ubuntu/instructions/ , and open it with the software installation, or install it following the installation steps for a Debian package. It works for me.

Comments

[haseebayazi]

This is a helpful guide for the tech-users (researchers like me). techooid.com/install-mendeley-on-ubuntu

[S. Regan]

They've changed the instructions at that link, thanks for alerting me to it! It's working now :)