Re: Installing Fiji on Linux, error

Posted by dscho on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Installing-Fiji-on-Linux-error-tp3686085p3686087.html

Hi Jaap,

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, JaapK wrote:

> I'm trying to install Fiji on Ubuntu 10.10 using the instructions given
> on the fiji website but I get the following error:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  fiji : Depends: sun-java6-bin but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages

There are instructions how you can get help (written in bold face)
directly below the section header "Packages for Debian / Ubuntu".

> Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? I'm new to Linux (for the
> 10th time I think), and it is stuff like this that always drives me back
> into the arms of Microsoft...

Of course, if Microsoft is easier for you, you should definitely stay with
it!

If you still want to try with Linux, you could use a single-file archive
(http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/Fiji#Downloads) as you would
have to do with Windows.

Hth,
Johannes