jAlbum Blog - Jalbum loves Linux

Posted Mar 11, 2010

To be truthful, the Jalbum experience on Linux hasn't been up to date with what you'd expect from us. This has been due to a number of reasons:

• The installer script was non-standard and didn't set up icons and file associations properly. Nor did it add Jalbum to the Applications menu of Ubuntu Linux. You even had to change file permissions in order to be able to execute the installer script.
• The look and feel used (Alloy) didn't render very well on Linux
• Integration with the file manager and browser had flaws: When attempting to open file system folders from within Jalbum, the web browser would display the folder instead and web browser integration was hard coded to Firefox.

Several blogs and tutorials have been written by Linux users showing how to install Jalbum on Ubuntu due to the issues with the installer. This shows the dedication among Linux users. You deserve to be served better!

Now we have finally addressed these issues by repackaging Jalbum as a .deb package for Ubuntu Linux. Users of Open SuSE can find packages for their distribution on this external site.

We have also updated Jalbum itself to make use of Java 6 features that means proper integration with the file manager and browser too. We now also use the system's default look and feel, which by now (Ubuntu 9.10) look really nice.

Please tell us what you think! Just download and double click the Linux package to install. Jalbum is then available via the Graphics section of the Applications menu.

Jalbum needs Sun's Java 1.5 or 1.6 installed. You can get that from the Software Center menu.

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4 months ago David Ekholm

Ok. Thanks for explaining. I won't bother about trying to have them change that though.

4 months ago TheJoe

It's an italian directory of privates and corporates telephone numbers (at least this is what they try to make). Like yellowpages.

Anyway it's a commercial site, and it has nothing to do with jalbum and linux.

4 months ago David Ekholm

Yes, I can see that. Do you understand the context?

4 months ago TheJoe

ummhh.. your logo is being used for commercial purposes here...

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3 years ago David Ekholm

Thanks John! We'll soon update out download page to include direct download links for both Debian and RPM based distros as well as he classic .bin archive

3 years ago johnsmithGA82

im glad u guys are supporting Linux :), i use Jalbum on the mac and im satisfied with the new version

3 years ago coderjunkie

Ok, just remembered this - totally forgot about it. It's been a long weekend, and have not had much energy of late. I still wouldn't mind helping, just not sure when. But figured I'd let you know that while I did forget about it, it's mostly just on the back burner for the moment. Will let you know when I can look at this again though.

3 years ago coderjunkie

You know, that is sad. I somehow was thinking suse did not use rpm but something else. It's been years since I've used it however. I also missed the link (I guess that's what happens when you've been awake since 2 am). I'll take a look and see if I can figure something out sometime soon - only have a short bit for the evening, but will let you know when I can.

3 years ago David Ekholm

We're happy for all help we can get, expecially if you can put together a cross-platform (ideally java-Ant) way of producing .rpm archives from our generic .zip version. In the blog post, I'm referring to an .rpm version of Jalbum for OpenSuSE users. Have you checked it out?

3 years ago coderjunkie

Well, I - after 14 years of use of Unix/Linux - decided that I don't need Windows even on my primary machine, so now it's my server running Linux, and my primary machine too. I have noticed a few issues, but I use openjdk due to the fact another programming project I've been part of for 8 years now uses it, and indeed, there is some permission issues, but nothing I could not work out. I have to say though, and main point of post: I love the look in the Linux interface of Jalbum (but X has come a long way too) and then also: while openjdk may not be the _best_ - for most things I've encountered (thus far) it works well enough (put another way: I've not run into any issues yet). I've only tested on FC 12, but imagine I'd have little to no trouble with others.

And indeed, .deb would be for debian/ubuntu and other debian based distros.

Now if I could get off my lazy hide, maybe I could help with rpms if any of the JAlbum team is interested.

3 years ago David Ekholm

On Ubuntu Linux, the Software Center is located in the bottom of the Applications menu

Kristoffer Jelbring is a site administrator

Kristoffer Jelbring helped translate jAlbum

3 years ago Kristoffer Jelbring

I belive that it only applies to the Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) distribution of Linux. For other distributions than the ones mentioned in this post the zip version of Jalbum is probably the best option.

3 years ago Al Geddis

When you say something like:
"Jalbum needs Sun's Java 1.5 or 1.6 installed. You can get that from the Software Center menu."
I wish there was a link or something that said where the "Center" was. I may eventually attempt to comprehend Linux; might any of this apply to "puppylinux.org" which seems to have some popularity. BTW, great graphic-big frog or small penguin though.