[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem installing PCB

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:50, Steve Baker wrote:
> terry wrote:
> 
> > Have downloaded 'setup_imake.jar' but don't have jar archiving tool to 
> > unpack it.  I've yet to find jar.                              ..... Any 
> 
> Aren't '.jar' files just '.tar'ed JAVA files?   I think you can unpack them
> with 'tar'...what you do after that, I have no idea.
> 

.jar files don't quite work that way.  They are Java archive files and
can be executed as is.  You need Java installed. From the java man page:

java [ options ] -jar file.jar

simply doing:

#java -jar setup_imake.jar

will work.  This executes the code in the archive file

> I'm quite suprised that your distro didn't come with imake already setup.
> 
> Can't you find a '.rpm' or something?
> 
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