Is the ApplicationRegistry available on linux

Question

I want install4j to detect if the application is installed on the customer's Linux box, but it might be installed in a non-standard location. Is this possible? I found some code in the code gallery that seems to work on Windows, but I don't see how this can be done on Linux:

installationApplicationRegistry.ApplicationInfo applicationInfo = ApplicationRegistry.getApplicationInfoByDir(context.getInstallationDirectory());

Thanks!

Answer 1

It does work on Linux, but it uses the Java preference store. If you do not install as root, this information will be in the user-specific preference store, so the installer will only see the previous installations if you use the same user to run the installer.