[ome-users] OMERO demo server account

[Blazej Pindelski]

> Hi Blazej ,

Hi Philippe,

>
> and thanx for your mail.
>
> It turned out that I was using the Ubuntu default open source Jav. Not
> the Oracle one. After installing Oracle version, it works.
>

Yes, OpenJDK's webstart behaves slightly different comapred to Oracle's
JDK. Great that switching solved your problem.

> Philippe
>

Regards,
Blazej

>
> On 24/10/2013 13:43, Blazej Pindelski wrote:
>> Hi Philippe,
>>
>> I hope you don't mind me forwarding this thread to the ome-users list as
>> well.
>>
>> I've tried both the Webstart client from
>> http://ome2-copy.fzk.de/omero/webstart/ as well as downloading and
>> running the Insight client from the package that Helen has suggested.
>> Both on Ubuntu 13.10 with
>> Oracle Java 7. All seems to work.
>>
>> With the OMERO.clients-4.4.9-ice33-b98.linux.zip file, Insight is
>> started by opening a Terminal, navigating to the unzipped folder and
>> executing "./OMEROinsight.sh". Sadly in some window managers on Linux
>> double clicking on the .sh file opens it in a text editor.
>>
>> Please let me know if you require more help.
>>
>> With kind regards,
>> Blazej
>>
>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback regarding the downloads page, that is the
>>> sort of thing we had in mind.
>>>
>>> As for the clients still not working, I am forwarding your email to
>>> some of our technical people to check if you have found a bug.
>>> Someone will be back in touch with you.
>>>
>>> Can I also recommend you subscribe to our users mailing list? You can
>>> do so on http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ome-users/
>>> This is the best place to ask for help in future. You may want to ask
>>> if anyone else has had similar issues with Ubuntu and get help from
>>> the wider community,
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Helen
>>>
>>> On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:58, <Philippe.POGNONEC at unice.fr>
>>>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Helen,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>>> Concerning specific comments for the redesigning of your Download page:
>>>> When navigating to the client download page, I would like to see a
>>>> simple interface, with only the links to the last packages for the
>>>> different OS available.
>>>> I understand you have many versions and options. Why not add to the
>>>> three hoped for links presented above an additional button, caller
>>>> "advanced", for those who want to tweak things around?
>>>>
>>>> Concerning the web start service in web based access: maybe it works
>>>> on Mac and Windows, but on my system (Linux), it opens a page with
>>>> again many different options for download. I tried the one that
>>>> presumably correspond to my situation, got a package, uncompressed
>>>> it, read the "install" text file, and none of the described files
>>>> supposed to be present corresponded to the files found in the folder.
>>>> So I could not install either.
>>>> But again, I am a biologist, not a computer wiz (while not
>>>> completely illiterate either).
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Philippe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24/10/2013 11:42, Helen Flynn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Philippe,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sorry to hear you have had difficulty trying to test our demo
>>>>> server. We are in the process of redesigning the downloads page and
>>>>> if you have any specific comments I'd be happy to receive them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I recommend you download the Ice 3.3 Linux client for your machine
>>>>> - if you look at the table of downloads in the client section, this
>>>>> is the middle option in the top line, the file should be called
>>>>> OMERO.clients-4.4.9-ice33-b98.linux.zip
>>>>> This should allow you to run the desktop OMERO.insight client, with
>>>>> full upload capability.
>>>>>
>>>>> You may find the workflow-based user guides on
>>>>> http://help.openmicroscopy.org helpful to learn your way around the
>>>>> software.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you still can't get the client to install, you can launch
>>>>> OMERO.insight using the webstart service from inside the web-based
>>>>> access you have already tried. See
>>>>> http://help.openmicroscopy.org/getting-started-4.html#web-start for
>>>>> instructions on how to do this.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope this helps, if you are still having difficulty, please get
>>>>> back in touch,
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Helen Flynn
>>>>>
>>>>> OME Technical Writer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Directeur de Recherche CNRS
>>>> Transporteurs en Imagerie et Radiotherapie en Oncologie, CEA
>>>> Faculté de Médecine, Université de Nice
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>>>> 06107 Nice Cedex 2
>>>> France
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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