Not marked as executable

[thomasstambaugh]

Alright, help me please. I want to run minecraft, but when clicking Minecraft.jar it wont cuz of Ubuntu's policy crap. Is there a way to turn this off, because this is worse than Windows UAC.

If not, using Java SDK 6, how can I run it? I'm assuming it's a terminal command since wine lets you get around the restrictions with a sudo wine command.

[Segfault]

Alright, help me please. I want to run minecraft, but when clicking Minecraft.jar it wont cuz of Ubuntu's policy crap. Is there a way to turn this off, because this is worse than Windows UAC.

If not, using Java SDK 6, how can I run it? I'm assuming it's a terminal command since wine lets you get around the restrictions with a sudo wine command.

Default denied is Unix security cornerstone, nothing wrong with that. There is an operating system which creates all files with execute bit set, even text files. We don't do that.
Ubuntu is great effort by great developers, although it may have some crappy users.

If you need to execute something chmod it executable first. See man chmod.

[TaZMAniac]

Right click on the jar file and select properties from the menu.
Click on the permissions tab.
Near the bottom is a small check box that says "Allow executing file as a program". Check that box.
Close properties screen.
Now right click on it again and select "Open With Other Application" as most times a jar file is associated with file roller.
Select Sun Java 6 Runtime as the application to open it with.