Re: ImageJ can't be updated on Ubuntu

Posted by Johan Henriksson-2 on Feb 23, 2010; 10:26am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-can-t-be-updated-on-Ubuntu-tp3689216p3689220.html

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 09:03 +0000, Colin Rickman wrote:
> Hi
>
> You should be able to fix this by checking the permissions of ij.jar and
> changing them using the chmod command.

run imagej with sudo to get write access. it's essentially a clash
between built-in program updates and the linux package system. one
shouldn't have both but unfortunately the debian-med team cannot keep up
with the updates.

/Johan

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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!
> >