Installing Zotero on Linux/Ubuntu

The official way to install Zotero on Linux is mildly speaking a nightmare ( https://www.zotero.org/support/installation  ). The fact that you need detailed instructions and command line skills to succeed in the installation speaks for itself:

tar -xvf Zotero-9.0.4_linux-x86_64.tar.xz
sudo mv Zotero_linux-x86_64/ /opt
cd /opt/Zotero_linux-x86_64/
set_launcher_icon
ln -s /opt/zotero/zotero.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/zotero.desktop

When I first did this, I mixed up the first two steps: I first moved the download and then decompressed with sudo. That resulted in a working program, but updating was impossible. But there is also an Ubuntu package available, which is probably the way to go:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/retorquere/zotero-pkg/master/install.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install zotero