Can't work out how to run .jar file directly from USB music player in Ubuntu 12.04

[niccolo]

Hi,

It's probably a simple fix, but since moving to 12.04, I can't work out simple shortcuts to home folders from media/disk, that I can navigate to easily from the Terminal. I want to run NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.17a.jar which is an open source program to copy and manage music on an old Sony USB mp3 player.It needs to be an executable to run, or run from Terminal using SUDO I guess, but can't either select executable through the GUI or navigate to media through Terminal, nor set up a shortcut to media within the home or desktop folders.


Should I run Nautilus with super user/root privileges and set-up a link or can i make the file executable through this route?


Any thoughts?

Cheers!

[drmrgd]

I'm not sure I entirely followed what you want. It sounds like you simply want to make the .jar file executable. If that's the case, you can either right click on the file and from the properties menu check the box that says make executable. Or, from the terminal, just navigate to the file's location and run:

chmod +x NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.17a.jar

Depending on where you downloaded it, you may need root privileges to do this, but I'm guessing that's probably not going to be the case.

Then to run the file, you can (from the terminal), run:

java -jar /path/to/file/NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.17a.jar

And it should run. I'm not sure how the java script works. Post back any errors you get, or I totally misunderstood what you're after, and we'll sort it out from there.

[agillator]

I believe you do not need to make the file executable. A jar file is actually a data file for the java program - that's what needs to be executable. The command above is the correct command to run that jar file. You can set up a desktop launcher to run it also by entering that command in the command box of the launcher setup.

[drmrgd]

I thought that might be the case. I don't remember ever making a .jar file executable. Thanks for the clarification!

[niccolo]

Thanks drmrgd

The problem is it won't let me make the file executable by clicking in properties (it unchecks the box immediately) or navigate to any root folder on terminal, only the home directory.

This wasn't a problem in 11, but since going to 12.04 it seems to be different on root privileges.

[0011235813]

Thanks drmrgd

The problem is it won't let me make the file executable by clicking in properties (it unchecks the box immediately) or navigate to any root folder on terminal, only the home directory.

This wasn't a problem in 11, but since going to 12.04 it seems to be different on root privileges.

If you can't navigate to a root folder in the terminal, you need to make yourself root, run;

sudo -i

to open a root shell. If you STILL can't navigate to root owned folders, then you may have a permission problem on your hands.