Re: Linux/UNIX users and installation

Posted by Raymond Martin-2 on Dec 14, 2009; 3:40pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690054.html

Hi Paolo,

> sorry, i'm confused ... but in debian, right now we have:
>
> usr/share/imagej/plugins
> usr/share/imagej/macros
> usr/share/imagej/luts
>
> default path points to:
> ij_path=/usr/share/java
>
> and this is for the system wide imagej, then for the single user we add:
> $ij_user_path/plugins
> $ij_user_path/macros
> $ij_user_path/luts
>
> finally the loooong imagej.sh wrapper merge both ...

Of course it works, yes. But it is unnecessary if just a relatively small
amount of configuration code is added to ImageJ to take care of all the
default situations that occur across the major operating systems.

Not having this default configuration code prevents ImageJ from being packaged
up in a straight-forward manner, without much, if any, changes. And then just
working properly, something I have been able to do with other Java
applications for years when getting them to run on Linux, Mac OS X, and
Windows at least.

Regards,

Raymond