Linux/UNIX users and installation

Posted by Raymond Martin-2 on Dec 13, 2009; 5:57am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690048.html

Hi,

A few open questions to ImageJ users who have it or want to install it on
Linux/UNIX systems.

Would having an RPM, .deb, or other package for installation be of interest?

That is, is system-wide installation of ImageJ in the expected manner as for
other Linux/UNIX application packages desirable for you and others that use it
on your systems?

Do you want to be able to control the installation and upgrade of ImageJ by
only allowing a user with root privileges (superuser/system administrator) to
do it?

Also, I would like to know how many actually use the upgrade feature in
ImageJ to do anything besides upgrading between a current version and a new
one?

Even for that, this kind of feature will not work on Linux/UNIX when ImageJ is
installed system-wide, as opposed to somewhere in a users home directory. What
is often seen in this case is just an ability to be notified of an upgrade,
take you to a web page, and let you choose the method of upgrade that is
suitable to your system instead.

I can easily make an RPM, but certain changes need to be made to ImageJ
for it to function as expected in a normal Linux/UNIX installed way. Fiji
seems to have a .deb so I wonder what changes they made for it to work,
must have seen the same issues?

Regards,

Raymond