Re: ImageJ & ImageJA in openSUSE 11.1

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Dec 20, 2008; 6:02pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-ImageJA-in-openSUSE-11-1-tp3694204p3694206.html

On Saturday 20 December 2008, Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
> When you say you have an old install in /home you mean it was
> installed directly from the ImageJ website?

Yes, I have a local install which was preserved from the previous suse 11.0
install.

> It's typically much better to install the package adapted for your
> distribution, so as to have the installed files under control by your
> package management system.

Maybe for packages that get updated via yast, but not for IJ.

> At the least you eliminate redundant programs being installed (using
> the OpenSuse version would upgrade/use your existing Java
> installation) and at most it would prevent file collisions which would
> affect the operation of other programs on the machine (not in this
> case though since you installed to /home).

But that does not really apply to IJ. There are no "redundant" programs, the
Java install I use is the system one, managed by yast.

Cheers

G.