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> On Jun 22, 2020, at 1:52 PM, Fred Damen <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Greetings Gabriel,
>
> My concern is not with how I have to deal with the plugin/library, the
> concern is with someone else who grabs the plugin from
>
https://imagej.net/Gnu_Plot and then tries to write a plugin of their own
> Java plugin that uses its public methods. When they have trouble
> accomplishing this I then have to spend time trying to fix things.
>
> When ImageJ is installed from the package manager on Fedora the user's
> .imagej/plugins/jars directory is softlink(ed) to
> /usr/share/imagej/plugins/jars, which is a admin controlled directory.
Starting with the ImageJ 1.53c58 daily build, library JAR files can also be located in the plugin/lib directory. The following helpful information is now displayed in the Edit>Options>Compiler dialog box:
>
> I am not trying to pass blame or necessarily request any changes. The
> problem I face is, what to put in the INSTALL section of
>
https://imagej.net/Gnu_Plot that causes me the least headaches going
> forward. I usually find it easier to follow the way it is supposed to
> work, and thus the question. I was trying to avoid just dumping
> everything directly into the plugins directory, but it is looking like
> that may be the easiest solution.
>
> Thanks again for the response,
>
> Fred
>
> On Sat, June 20, 2020 5:50 am, Gabriel Landini wrote:
>> On Saturday, 20 June 2020 05:36:23 BST you wrote:
>>> Putting the underscored JAR file in the plugins/jars directory will be
>>> more annoyance then it is worth, as on Fedora and possibly other Linux
>>> distributions, the plugins/jars directory is softlink(ed) to system
>>> directories.
>>
>> I do not know the answer to your other questions, but the above is not the
>> case in Ubuntu or Opensuse. I have ImageJ installed it in the folder I
>> want in
>> my home directory. Just unpacked the installation download from the IJ
>> site.
>>
>> But perhaps I did not understand the problem. Is it that you do not have
>> write
>> access to that soft-linked folder?
>> I doubt that it is IJ's fault, but the logic followed by the Fedora
>> installer.
>> If you are not supposed to have write access to a system folder for
>> security
>> reasons, why would you expect to be able to write to it as a user? Isn't
>> that
>> restricted to the administrator? If you are the administrator, can't you
>> grant
>> yourself write access?
>>
>>> It would be easier to just unpack the ZIP file into the
>>> plugins directory;
>>
>> That is how I do it in linux.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Gabriel