Re: Linux/UNIX users and installation

Posted by Wolfgang Schechinger on Dec 13, 2009; 10:09am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690057.html

Hi Raymond,

I am using IJ under OpenSuse 11.1 on several stand-alone systems (notebooks). I do not require a system-wide installation, but having an rpm and this feature would be good, I think: If I were using different accounts for different projects or at work/at home it would become easier to manage system wide updates.

Ideal would be to give the user the option to either install it locally or system-wide. For updates, IJ / the system just would need to ask for the root password as it is currently done within the update function of OpenSuse.

Best regards,

Wolfgang


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:58:26 -0500
> Von: Raymond Martin <[hidden email]>
> An: [hidden email]
> Betreff: Linux/UNIX users and installation

> 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

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