Re: Using the life line version with daily builds

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Nov 10, 2016; 4:45pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Using-the-life-line-version-with-daily-builds-tp5017557p5017564.html

> On Nov 10, 2016, at 6:02 AM, Avital Steinberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a mac and I'm using the life line version of ImageJ bundled with
> Java 6, because Java 8 doesn't work well on my mac. How can I get the daily
> build? I used to be able to get the daily build and still use Java 6, but
> now if I update ImageJ, it switches ImageJ to work with Java 8 and all my
> scripts stop working.
>
> So how can I just get the latest daily build which still using ImageJ and
> Java 6?

Normally you use the Help>Update ImageJ command and select “daily build” from the drop down menu but the life line version of Fiji comes with ImageJ 1.50e, which generates a “Release Notes are not in the expected format” error when you try to upgrade. You get this error because versions of ImageJ earlier than 1.50i download ij.jar files from https://imagej.nih.gov/ij, which fails because the ImageJ website now uses encryption incompatible with Java. You can work around this problem by downloading the ImageJ Updater plugin from

    https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/plugins/updater/index.html

which downloads ij.jar files from wsr.imageJ.net.

-wayne


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