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Adding a comment to address Issue #25
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hmaarrfk committed Nov 27, 2017
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AppImage: (Seems a little out of date though)
https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/Mendeley_Desktop/


Known Bugs
==========
There exists a QT incompatibility that I found a workaround for a while ago.

The spec file creates a barebones executable that sets the variables `MENDELEY_BUNDLED_QT_PLUGIN_PATH` to that of Fedora's.
```bash

# seems like the executable is looking for this variable
# so I had to set it.
cat > bin/%{name} <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
export MENDELEY_BUNDLED_QT_PLUGIN_PATH=%{_libdir}/qt5/plugins
%{_libexecdir}/%{name} "$@"
EOF
chmod +x bin/%{name}
```

The link to the bug on the Mendeley [website](http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/16832835-mendeley-desktop-1-17-8-on-fedora-crashes-a-few-seconds-after-starting) seems to have a similar workaround.

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