Re: ImageJ can't be updated on Ubuntu

Posted by Roger Koot on Feb 23, 2010; 2:36pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-can-t-be-updated-on-Ubuntu-tp3689216p3689217.html

Hi,

the simple solution is: do not install imagej system-wide, but let the
users maintain their own copy.
you really do not want to update a system-wide
installed-from-repositories version.
just download the imagej package from imagej's main site, unpack it in
your homedirectory and run it from there. then you can update imagej
whenever you want without being bothered by permission problems.

roger


On 02/23/2010 09:58 AM, Yili Zhao wrote:
> Hi,
>   I installed ImageJ through "sudo apt-get" on Ubuntu 9.10. Then I clicked
> "Help->Update ImageJ..." menu, but an dialog shows : "No write access:
> /usr/share/java/ij.jar".
>   It seems that I use the root privilege to install ImageJ by "sudo", and the
> file "ij.jar" belongs root. So when I start ImageJ by non root user, it can't
> write to file "ij.jar".
>   How to solve this problem?
>   Thanks!