Re: [CentOS] Opening a jar file from the desktop

2013-02-01 Thread James B. Byrne

On Fri, February 1, 2013 10:59, Reindl Harald wrote:

> java -jar superbcalc.jar

Thank you.
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Re: [CentOS] Opening a jar file from the desktop

2013-02-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:42:23 -0500
James B. Byrne wrote:

> how do I
> get jar files to open and run using Java both from the command line
> and from the desktop?

Create a small script or a launcher (right-click on desktop, Create Launcher)
containing the following: java -jar nameofjar.jar

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[CentOS] Opening a jar file from the desktop

2013-02-01 Thread James B. Byrne
I have java-1.7.0-openjdk installed on a CentOS-6.3 x86_64 system.  On
my desktop I have a jar file containing a calculator program which
runs fine on CentOS-5 and on MS-Windows machines.

On the CentOS-6 system when I right-click on the jar file and say open
with java nothing apparently happens.  When I double-click on it then
I see a file browser window offering to extract the contents but there
are no contents visible, only an empty / directory.  If I go to the
desktop in a terminal session and type java superbcalc.jar then I see
this message:  "Could not find or load main class superbcalc.jar"

There is no CLASSPATH environment variable set by the system.  If I
provide one and include the current directory '.' I get the same
error.

CLASSPATH=. java superbcalc.jar
Error: Could not find or load main class superbcalc.jar

What has changed in CentOS-6 to stop this from working and how do I
get jar files to open and run using Java both from the command line
and from the desktop?



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