.jar?

[triunenature]

tar.gz in a .zip

Ok, so decompression is easy enough. Right click and "extract here" gets rid of the .zip part.

I can even deal with the Tar.Gz... if i follow the instructions carefully. But what i cant find any help with is a .JAR

Apparenlty its some kind of Java Application, which would make sence for what the file should be doing (once i get it working that is)

The question on my mind is, how does one install a .JAR?

My first guess was to go to the README.txt file, but that would be to easy. it has nothing of value in it.

The tarball contains the following things, maybe im doing this wrong:

peanutsample_img (folder)
clickwraplicense.html
makebook.jar (the file i think i need)
peanutsample.txt (a file showing how cool makebook is, if you can read between the coding)
readme.txt (about plum useless)

Any ideas?

Oh if you want to test this out for yourself, go to ereader.com -> downloads -> unix

Thank you

[triunenature]

Ok, so, i untarballed it

and then i used the command java -jar makebook.jar

and the output was

Invalid or Corrupt jarfile makebook.jar

Soo, got any ideas?

[Kieren]

A .jar file is a kind of exactable for Java programs so you don't need to extract it but instead just run it. I have checked out the file and it is terribly packaged and documented

It looks as if the jar file doesn't work as it isn't packaged properly. You have used the correct command to execute it though. I think you aren't on to a winner with this but if you really want this software you are best contacting the developer and asking for a working copy

[b2bwild]

Install OpenJDK 6 or Sun Java 6 runtime,
then open .jar file with it.