jar command missing in Fedora 19?

Amadeus W.M. amadeus84 at verizon.net
Fri Jul 5 17:29:06 UTC 2013


On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:42:13 -0400, Carlos \"casep\" Sepulveda wrote:

> On 5 July 2013 12:34, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> I just installed Fedora 19 anew from the live cd and I'm having a few
>> issues.
>>
>> One is that I'm trying to install a java application that requires the
>> jar command, but jar can't be found:
>>
>> jar xf myApp.jar bash: jar: command not found...
>>
>>
> Hi:
> It's in the "-devel" package, for instance java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel
> 
> To look for a specific file
> 
> yum provides */the_file in this case yum provides */bin/jar
> 
> Regards
> 

Thank you! Very useful "yum provides" command.

Incidentally, I went to file manager and clicked on myApp.jar, opened it 
with archive manager, selected the files I needed and it extracted them, 
so I gues that can handle java archives too.



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