1. Introduction
    1. Main Features
    2. Changes
    3. Installation
      1. Windows
        1. With OpenOffice.org > 1.9.x
        2. With OpenOffice.org 1.1.x
      2. GNU/Linux
        1. Debian packages
          1. Using OOo1.1.x
          2. Using OOo2.0
        2. Other linux
    4. Starting Bibus

Introduction

Bibus is a bibliographic database.
It has been developed with OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/) in mind. This means that the database is modeled on OpenOffice.org bibliographic database engine. As such it has the features and most of the limitations of this format. However, one of the most annoying limitation which is the restriction to 80 characters of any field, has been addressed in bibus where the fields are 255 character long (or even unlimited, depending on the database engine used).
However, Bibus is in development and there are many evolutions planed for the OpenOffice.org bibliographic engine. Bibus will try to evolve alongside these changes.
Is Bibus stable enough for using it on a daily basis? As usual, Bibus is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY and you must use it at your own risk. However, since the heart of Bibus is the database engine (MySQL and SQLite) and since it is not possible to delete a reference in Bibus, I think the risk to get a catastrophic crash is very low. You must however remember to make regular backups of the database. If you use SQLite, you just have to copy the database file. If you use MySQL the easiest way is probably to use mysqldump (mysqldump -p Biblio > biblio.sql).

Main Features

Changes

For a complete listing of the changes, see CHANGELOG.

1.2.0
New features
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* Bibus now communicate both with OOo and MS Word
* New display of references in Main window
* Improved Windows installer
* Freezed Windows version
* Installable on FlashKey on Windows
Bug fix
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* compatibility with pysqlite2/pysqlite1.1/pysqlite1.0 improved
* compatibility with MySQL4.0/4.1 improved
* resize problem of Reference editor fixed
* fix import filters when date is empty
* import filters now use TITLE for booktitle instead of BOOKTITLE (used only for inBook, inCollection)
1.1.1
* compatible with python-sqlite2. You must update your old database
* compatible with MySQL41. You must update your old database
* References are displayed/printed/copied according to the current format
* bug fixes
1.1.0
Note added after 1.1.0 release:
* contrary to what is said in the Changelog file, bibus is NOT COMPATIBLE with python-sqlite version 2.
* Compatible with OOo2.0 and 1.1
* Compatible with python-sqlite2
* Compatible with MySQL4.1
* Fast display of long lists
* BibTeX import from Nigel Sim <nigel.sim@jcu.edu.au>
* New translations (partial)
* Portugese translation by Vitor Figueiro <vfigueiro@gocial.pt>
* chinese translation by <max.ouyang@gmail.com>
* spanish translation by Pablo Rodriguez <ousia@gmx.net>
* German translation by Andreas Morasch <a.mor@web.de>
* Czech translation by Daniel Rajdl <rajdl@fnplzen.cz>
* Gestion of duplicates during import
* Complete rewrite of the OOo connection for portability and speed
1.0.0
* Added new styles for field formatting (free combination of bold, italic, underline, caps, smallcaps)
* New command to go to the current doc in OpenOffice
* BibliograpicType is now displayed as 'ARTICLE', 'BOOK', etc... instead of 0,1,2,...
* Double clicking a imported references allows to see all the fields
* Possibility to import references without saving them first
* Column width may now be fixed
* reference list sorting improved (up/down + arrow)
pre1.0.0
* portugese translation
* complete styles
* work with wxPython2.5
* work with mysql-python 1.1.x
* work with PySQLite 1.1.x
* remember window position and size
* simplified install (to be improved)
* many bug fixes
0.9.0
* Greatly improved styles
* First connection wizard to help setting Bibus
* First rudimentary author-date implementation
0.8.2
* maintenance release
0.8.1
* Added connection with OpenOffice.org using Pipe (in addition to TCP/IP)
* tested on Windows98, 2000 and linux

0.8.0
* First public release
* Tested on debian Gnu/linux unstable and Windows2000

Installation

The installation here is mainly obsolete.
For up-to-date informations please read the installation doc online.

Windows

With OpenOffice.org > 1.9.x

With OpenOffice.org 1.1.x

The Windows installer does not work with OpenOffice1.1.x. If you want to use this version, you must follow the old installation procedure.

GNU/Linux

Debian packages

Starting with Bibus-1.0.0 you can install Bibus using apt-get. You should be able to use either OOo1.1.x or OOo2.0.
OOo2.0 has just been released in Debian unstable. For the moment you must donwload packages from the bibus site but I'm planing to make them available in the futur directly in Debian Unstable repository.
(You can replace 'switch.dl.sourceforge.net' with the address of a Sourceforge mirror near you)
Using OOo1.1.x
or you can use pysqlite2
Using OOo2.0
Openoffice.org2.0 is available in Debian unstable, you must thus run unstable to install bibus with OOo2.
There is a conflict between the old openoffice-pyuno package available with bibus1.0 and the new python-uno package available in Debian unstable. This conflict cannot be solved directly by apt or Synaptic.
or you can use pysqlite2

Other linux

Most modern linux distribution now contain OpenOffice.org2 and a python-uno bridge compiled with the system python. This makes bibus installation much easier than before. If it is not the case of your distribution, you can still try to follow the old installation instructions.
The name of the packages may be a bit different in your distribution but you should be able to guess the correct name. Install the following packages:
If you want also to use MySQL:
Now Donwload bibus-1.1.1