ImageJ & ImageJA in openSUSE 11.1

[Gabriel Landini]

I have just installed openSUSE 11.1 in a desktop and noticed that ImageJ 1.42e
is available in the one of the repositories.

ImageJA is also there and is reported to be 1.42e.

I haven't installed these because I already had the old install in the /home
partition.  Here is the information:
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ImageJ - ImageJ - Image processing and analysis in Java
Version: 1.42e-0.pm.1
Build Time: Thu 18 Dec 2008 17:12:33 GMT
Package Group: Productivity/Graphics/Convertors
License: Public Domain
Installed Size: 1.3 M
Download Size: 1.2 M
Distribution:
Vendor: packman.links2linux.de
Packager:  Toni Graffy <[hidden email]>
Architecture: noarch
Build Host:
URL: http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/index.html
Media No.: 0
Authors:
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Cheers
Gabriel

[Pariksheet Nanda]

Hi Gabriel,

When you say you have an old install in /home you mean it was
installed directly from the ImageJ website?

It's typically much better to install the package adapted for your
distribution, so as to have the installed files under control by your
package management system.
At the least you eliminate redundant programs being installed (using
the OpenSuse version would upgrade/use your existing Java
installation) and at most it would prevent file collisions which would
affect the operation of other programs on the machine (not in this
case though since you installed to /home).

Best wishes,
Pariksheet

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Gabriel Landini <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I have just installed openSUSE 11.1 in a desktop and noticed that ImageJ 1.42e
> is available in the one of the repositories.
>
> ImageJA is also there and is reported to be 1.42e.
>
> I haven't installed these because I already had the old install in the /home
> partition.  Here is the information:
> -----
> ImageJ - ImageJ - Image processing and analysis in Java
> Version: 1.42e-0.pm.1
> Build Time: Thu 18 Dec 2008 17:12:33 GMT
> Package Group: Productivity/Graphics/Convertors
> License: Public Domain
> Installed Size: 1.3 M
> Download Size: 1.2 M
> Distribution:
> Vendor: packman.links2linux.de
> Packager:  Toni Graffy <[hidden email]>
> Architecture: noarch
> Build Host:
> URL: http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/index.html
> Media No.: 0
> Authors:
> -----
>
> Cheers
> Gabriel
>

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[Gabriel Landini]

On Saturday 20 December 2008, Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
> When you say you have an old install in /home you mean it was
> installed directly from the ImageJ website?

Yes, I have a local install which was preserved from the previous suse 11.0
install.

> It's typically much better to install the package adapted for your
> distribution, so as to have the installed files under control by your
> package management system.

Maybe for packages that get updated via yast, but not for IJ.

> At the least you eliminate redundant programs being installed (using
> the OpenSuse version would upgrade/use your existing Java
> installation) and at most it would prevent file collisions which would
> affect the operation of other programs on the machine (not in this
> case though since you installed to /home).

But that does not really apply to IJ. There are no "redundant" programs, the
Java install I use is the system one, managed by yast.

Cheers

G.