Chapter 1. Installation

Table of Contents

1.1. System Requirements
1.2. Installation of the Binary Distribution
1.3. Running GroIMP
1.3.1. From the Command Line
1.3.2. From Your System's File Browser
1.3.3. From a Menu Entry of Your Desktop
1.3.4. Java Options
1.4. Installation of Plugins for the Java Image I/O Framework

1.1. System Requirements

GroIMP is written in Java. Thus, it should follow Java's WORA-principle (Write Once, Run Anywhere) and should run on every Java-capable platform. GroIMP has been tested successfully on Unix and Windows platforms.

GroIMP 0.9.3 requires the installation of a Java runtime environment of version 1.4 or later. Both can be obtained from Sun at java.sun.com.

For a reasonably performant runtime behaviour, at least 256 MB RAM and a 1 GHz processor are recommended.