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Mooder

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Registered: 2016-03-02

Posts: 12

Trying to run a .jar file

Hi,

I installed Arch linux yesterday and it is the first time I ever touch to linux so please be gentle.

The directory is /home/intel/temp/java/jar/install.jar
I installed the packages: jre8-openjdk and then jre7-openjdk because it wasn't working with jre8...

The command I use is:
#java -jar /home/intel/temp/java/jar/install.jar

I get:
no main manifest attribute, in /home/intel/temp/java/jar/install.jar

I searched on the web and all the post I see are about people having problem compiling which is not my case... What am I doing wrong? I bet I need an extra package...

damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 454

Re: Trying to run a .jar file

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/te … r/jar.html

.jar files (zip files really) need a META-INF directory and a MANIFEST.MF file (and others) there.
is it really a valid .jar file?

Mooder

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Registered: 2016-03-02

Posts: 12

Re: Trying to run a .jar file

Please close, problem solved.

Last edited by Mooder (2016-03-03 06:00:12)

mariusmeyer

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 244

Re: Trying to run a .jar file

How did you solve it? Please share!

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Trying to run a .jar file

@Mooder, as mariusmeyer said, please share your solution.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … way_street

Mooder

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Registered: 2016-03-02

Posts: 12

Re: Trying to run a .jar file

There was 2 problems:
1- the jar file was broken.
2- using the command cd, I moved to the directory where there was an install.txt and simply did ./install
Thanks for the help!