I must install a .jar file and I don't know how to do it :|

zovres · 01-07-2003, 11:19 AM

the title is explicit enough I guess

I use redhat 8.0

any help very appreciated

rshaw · 01-07-2003, 11:23 AM

if you have a jre installed it should be java -jar<filename.jar>

zovres · 01-07-2003, 02:36 PM

ok then what is a jre? and what is the best I could get? (I don't have one 'cause I already tried this when I search over linuxquestions.org)

acid_kewpie · 01-07-2003, 02:47 PM

http://java.sun.com

your title really *isn't* explicit enough, as you don't "install" jar files in the first place... always good to expand as much as possible

mshater · 01-08-2003, 08:25 AM

Is it a "standard extension"? If so, you need to put it in /usr/java/j2re<version>/lib/ext where <version> is your jre version.

jglen490 · 01-08-2003, 08:49 AM

A ".jar" is a Java archive, from which Java will simply extract what it needs. It is the same type of file as the Java world uses in the Windoze environment, and so for consistency's sake, within the code of the Java executable, the file has a ".jar" incorporated in the file name. Linux, of course, does not require the use of filename extensions in order to understand what it needs to do. The Linux filesystems provide a much better way through the use of an extensive meta-data structure in the filesystem definition.

oli1997 · 10-28-2008, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jglen490

A ".jar" is a Java archive, from which Java will simply extract what it needs. It is the same type of file as the Java world uses in the Windoze environment, and so for consistency's sake, within the code of the Java executable, the file has a ".jar" incorporated in the file name. Linux, of course, does not require the use of filename extensions in order to understand what it needs to do. The Linux filesystems provide a much better way through the use of an extensive meta-data structure in the filesystem definition.

well i used a program called IZARC it extracts .jar files and it works