Install Mendeley on Fedora

mendeley-install.sh

#!/bin/sh

ARCH=`uname -m`
INSTALL=/usr/local/mendeley

# As noted by Narendiran Anandan in http://disq.us/26v7yj, 
# required OpenSSL libraries are availabe only at the following locations:
# http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/openssl-0.9.8k-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
# http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/openssl-0.9.8k-1.fc11.i586|i686.rpm
case $ARCH in
    x86_64 )
        MENDELEY="http://www.mendeley.com/client/get/100-2"
        OPENSSL_URL="http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/$ARCH/os/Packages"
        OPENSSL_RPM="openssl-0.9.8k-1.fc11.$ARCH.rpm"
        ;;
    i586 )
        MENDELEY="http://www.mendeley.com/client/get/100-1"
        OPENSSL_URL="http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages"
        OPENSSL_RPM="openssl-0.9.8k-1.fc11.$ARCH.rpm"
        ;;
    i* )
        MENDELEY="http://www.mendeley.com/client/get/100-1"
        OPENSSL_URL="http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages"
        OPENSSL_RPM="openssl-0.9.8k-1.fc11.i686.rpm"
        ;;
    * )
        echo "This installation script currently does not support your system's architecture: $ARCH"
        ;;
esac

if [ $OPENSSL_URL ]; then

    mkdir $INSTALL
    cd $INSTALL

    # Download Mendeley Desktop and extract the files to installation directory
    wget $MENDELEY
    tar -xjf *.tar.bz2
    \cp -a mendeleydesktop*/* .
    rm mendeleydesktop* -rf

    # Install Mendeley Icons
    \cp -a share/icons /usr/share/

    # Install .desktop
    \cp -a share/applications/mendeleydesktop.desktop /usr/share/applications/

    # Create executable command
    ln -fs $INSTALL/bin/mendeleydesktop /usr/bin/


    # Download openssl-0.9.8 and extract the files from the RPM
    # See: http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/140258-libssl-so-0-9-8-error-on-64-bit-x86-64-
    mkdir -p /tmp/openssl
    cd /tmp/openssl
    wget "$OPENSSL_URL/$OPENSSL_RPM"
    rpm2cpio $OPENSSL_RPM | cpio -idmv
     
    # cd to Mendeley Desktop directory. The one you extracted the files to...
    cd $INSTALL/lib
     
    # Fix symbolic links
    rm libssl.so.0 -rf
    \cp -a /tmp/openssl/usr/lib*/* .
    ln -s libssl.so.8 libssl.so.0
    rm /tmp/openssl -rf

fi

I had issues with the icons sticking to the launcher in F27. Had to run the following script from http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/03/customizing-the-gnome-3-shell.html to update the icon cache.

#!/bin/bash 
find /usr/share/icons -maxdepth 1 -type d | \
while read -r THEME; do
   if [[ -f "$THEME/index.theme" ]]; then
      echo "Updating $THEME cache"
      gtk-update-icon-cache -f -q "$THEME"
   fi
done