Re: Linux/UNIX users and installation

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Dec 14, 2009; 9:38am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690049.html

On Sunday 13 Dec 2009  09:30:35 you wrote:
> Would having an RPM, .deb, or other package for installation be of
>  interest?

Opensuse has both ImageJ and ImageJA rpms available.
I prefer to install as a local user.

> 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?

I do not understand the question. Do you mean to update the ij.jar file?
I do not think you can do other things than testing different versions of IJ
with that.
I also use a script that updates the ij.jar and checks differences with the
published documents in Wayne's site, so if something changes I see the old and
new docs with kdiff3.
 
> 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.

Fiji has a much more complex updater, have a look at it.

Cheers
G.