[udig-devel] [jira] Created: (UDIG-1231) Cannot install as shared applic

["Adrian Custer (JIRA)" <jira@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cannot install as shared application on gnu/linux
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                 Key: UDIG-1231
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG-1231
             Project: uDIG
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: installer
    Affects Versions: UDIG 1.1.RC9
         Environment: gnu/linux
            Reporter: Adrian Custer
            Assignee: Richard Gould


uDig cannot be installed on gnu/linux as a shared application. 

If user alice installs uDig under /foo, even if Alice grants permissive settings on the application with
  chmod -R a+w /foo
when user Joni attempts to run uDig with
  /foo/udig/udig
then uDig launches and the JVM right away reports the error reported by Prof. Keitt in his message to the mailing list:


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I tried RC9 today and two things I noticed:

1) If I download and unzip everything into /opt/udig as root and then
run uDig as an ordinary user, it dies with JVM error code=13.
Apparently uDig needs write access to its installation directory in
order to work. That makes no sense in a Linux environment where app
directories are generally not touched by users.

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Note also that this category of bugs could be altered from 'installer' to 'installation' issues.

--adrian

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