Re: ImageJ can't be updated on Ubuntu

Posted by Colin Rickman-3 on Feb 23, 2010; 9:03am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-can-t-be-updated-on-Ubuntu-tp3689216p3689219.html

Hi

You should be able to fix this by checking the permissions of ij.jar and
changing them using the chmod command.

Colin

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On 23/02/2010 08:58, 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!
>