Other Help Topics :: extracting *.jar files

Being new to linux I have problems to extract a *.jar file.
Could anybody give me a hint please??
I am running the latest version od DSL installed on my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop and like it very much.

Karl

Well, first you have to install java. Two versions are in the DSL repository.

If you want to extract, then:
jar xvf <filename>.jar

If you are trying to run the jar, then:
java -jar <filename>.jar

Thank you very much

Karl

original here.