<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Chris,<br><br>On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Chris wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">In attempting to open ImageJ or Fiji, I am getting an error: To open<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"ImageJ," you need a Java SE 6 runtime.<br></blockquote><br>It also offers you to install the same.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I have never seen this error before. I use a Mac PowerBook Pro 10.7.5.<br></blockquote><br>Apple does not ship Java by default anymore, starting with 10.7. Instead,<br>they show you that dialog similar to<br><br><a href="http://www.fanuriotimetracking.com/files/releases/2.6.1/help/html/images/macosx-lion-java-install.png">http://www.fanuriotimetracking.com/files/releases/2.6.1/help/html/images/macosx-lion-java-install.png</a><br><br>which clearly has two buttons, one of them labeled "Install".<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I got that exact message. Unfortunately, I was on the Amtrak train from Bakersfield to Oakland, California at the time and had five hours to work on a project for a Canadian researcher. Amtrak has limited wifi that does not allow downloads, so I was hoping I could start ImageJ some other way. Wayne got back to me toward the end of the trip with the suggestion: </div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>java -mx256m -jar ij.jar</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>which worked.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>After it installed Java, you have to run ImageJ or Fiji *again*.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Also, in attempting to run ImageJ from the terminal, I get: <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ChrisGAIAG:ImageJ chris$ java -jar -mx256m ImageJ.app/Contents/Resources/Java/ij.jar<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Error: Unable to access jarfile ImageJ.app/Contents/Resources/Java/ij.jar<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Is this a known problem, and is there a fix for it?<br></blockquote><br>I bet ij.jar is somewhere else than ImageJ.app/Contents/Resources/Java/.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>You would lose that bet! ;-) Wayne's suggestion worked from the same directory where I got this error.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><br></body></html>