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A relative installed Zotero using the software center and for some reason the libre office plugin was not automatically installed.

I read https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_manual_installation but calling which on zotero didn't return anything of interest. So I needed to look for the right file myself.

Natan
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The path you are looking for is ~/snap/zotero-snap/56/extensions/zoteroOpenOfficeIntegration@zotero.org/install.

In that folder you will find Zotero_OpenOffice_Integration.oxt which you can then install by double clicking it as described in the manual installation tutorial.

Finding that file can be a bit bothersome for beginners so I hope this helps. I found it using cd / and then sudo find . -name zotero. This results in a list of folders/files containing zotero in its name. I quickly noticed that two results had cache in them, so I ignored them. The last result within snap was the path I mentioned above and it was the right one.

Natan
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  • For me it was in /snap/zotero-snap/109/integration/libreoffice/Zotero_LibreOffice_Integration.oxt. I found it running sudo find . -name '*.oxt' after cd /. – JAQuent Mar 31 '25 at 03:46
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I've decided to write my own answer as the steps above weren't enough for me to solve the identical problem (having installed Zotero via snap but the word processor plugin didn't work).

I found the correct .oxt file using

cd /
sudo find . -name '*.oxt'

which found it in /snap/zotero-snap/109/integration/libreoffice/. However when I try to open that file I received an error message (similar to https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/116970/libreoffice-plugin-installation-issue-in-ubuntu-24-04), which was fixed by installing the following package:

sudo apt install libreoffice-java-common

This fixed it for me.

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