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Mendeley desktop won't work on ubuntu 16.04

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I've been trying to install Mendeley on ubuntu 16.04. I followed the installation guide on their website but it simply doesn't start. The icon appears when I run it and in 3 seconds it disappears. Any thoughts?

Output of running mendeleydesktop in terminal

Unable to use Qt libraries in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Some components are missing:

 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4 To run Mendeley Desktop you may need to install the QtWebKit and QtSvg packages provided by your Linux distribution. Using bundled SSL runtime libraries /usr/bin/../../opt/mendeleydesktop/bin/mendeleydesktop: error while loading shared libraries: libgstapp-0.10.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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answered 2 Years ago girdleas · Accepted Answer

Open a terminal and run

sudo apt-get install libqtsvg4-perl libqtwebkit4

I had this exact error and after Mark Kirby's answer I still had the problem. After running the above, now Mendeley launches and syncs all my data (yeah!).

What I don't know is if it was just what I wrote above or if you need this and also Mark Kirby's answer both.

Source of answer: http://ubuntuforum-br.org/index.php?topic=120046.0