Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

[Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <ojs@klaki.net>]

Þann 2006-03-02, 12:53:54 (-0800) skrifaði ke6isf:
> Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions 
> provided on the IRC channel.
> 
> OK, so I have this .jar file.  If I open it using 'java 
> hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me:
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
> hidejournal-0/3/1/jar
> 
> If I open it from Nautilus (I run Gnome), it pops it open in File Roller.
> 
> Just what should I be using to run this?

This is a zipped file of java files, you can use the jar utility to
unzip it, see man jar.

Oli