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<p>I have just upgraded my work machine (laptop) to Kubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.4) and have to say that I was mightily impressed with the ease of upgrade; 99% flawless.
 The one area where I did experience some difficulty was in running Zotero: Zotero Integration Error blared at me whenever I tried to add a citation.
 Fortunately, I had encountered this before and knew it was a problem regarding OpenJDK and IceTea. Indeed, a quick google search turned up <a href="http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/11429/zotero-in-ubuntu-104-lucid-lynx/">the answer</a>, which I will quote here, with minor alterations to account for the final versions.
 Open up a terminal and type, line by line:
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sudo bash<br />
sudo echo 'deb <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu" rel="nofollow">http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu</a> lucid partner' &gt;&gt; /etc/apt/sources.list<br />
exit<br />
sudo apt-get update<br />
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin<br />
sudo update-alternatives --config java<br />
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/</p></blockquote><br />
<p> Go into OpenOffice. Go to Tools -&gt; Options -&gt; Java and select the Sun 1.6.0.20 runtime. Close OpenOffice.
 Then, in Firefox go to Tools -&gt; Add-Ons. Go to Zotero OpenOffice Integration and click Preferences. Reinstall the OpenOffice extensions from there.
 Fire everything up and you should be up and running!</p>