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Ralph Boland
July 30th, 2010, 10:44 PM
I am running Ubuntu 10.04.
I just created a jar file and now I am trying to extract the files again.
So I tried the jar command but it was not found.
Then I tried installing the jar package but there is no such package.
I assume that the jar command is contained in some package that I must
install but I don't know what package.
I did a search for "jar" in the synaptic package manager but did not
identify what package I should install.

Any suggestions as to what I should try next?

Regards,

Ralph Boland

andrewc6l
July 31st, 2010, 01:39 AM
If you just want the contents of the jar, you can use unzip:


unzip -v file.jar (to list)
unzip file.jar (to extract)

JAR files are really just .zip files with a MANIFEST.MF.

If you want the full Sun JDK, instructions are here:
http://www.clickonf5.org/linux/how-install-sun-java-ubuntu-1004-lts/7777

(but I haven't tried them)