Re: question about a .deb file

[Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav.v.v@gmail.com>]

2021-12-08 13:21 GMT+05:00, Piper H <potthua@gmail.com>:
> I downloaded the JDBC drive from mysql website:
> https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
>
> And got a file name:
> (mysql-connector-java_8.0.27-1debian10_all.deb)
> Then I run:
> sudo dpkg -i mysql-connector-java_8.0.27-1debian10_all.deb
>
> And what's the next step?
> I expect to get a *.jar file which will be used as the Mysql JDBC drive.
> Until now I don't know where to get this jar file from the .deb file above.

You can see content of installed package by command:

dpkg -L mysql-connector-java

And i recommend you do not install packages by hand before searching in repo.
May be this package for you: https://packages.debian.org/buster/libmariadb-java

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Stanislav