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I'm trying to run the installer for shaders mod for minecraft, and I don't know how to run the .jar file...  On the computer that I used to use, I could choose to open these files with Java, but now that doesn't show up as an option.  Java is installed.  Thanks for any help

 

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  1. Install the Java runtime environment if it is not already installed.
  2. Double click on the jar file or use the command line java -jar <myjarfile.jar> (will only work for executable jar files. Not all jar files are executable)

To summarize: A jar file can be opened either with decompression software that can handle zip files or Java can open the jar file and run the Java software that it contains.

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I'm trying to run the installer for shaders mod for minecraft, and I don't know how to run the .jar file...  On the computer that I used to use, I could choose to open these files with Java, but now that doesn't show up as an option.  Java is installed.  Thanks for any help

 

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I'm trying to run the installer for shaders mod for minecraft, and I don't know how to run the .jar file...  On the computer that I used to use, I could choose to open these files with Java, but now that doesn't show up as an option.  Java is installed.  Thanks for any help

 

I hope this is the right place to post this

  1. Install the Java runtime environment if it is not already installed.
  2. Double click on the jar file or use the command line java -jar <myjarfile.jar> (will only work for executable jar files. Not all jar files are executable)

To summarize: A jar file can be opened either with decompression software that can handle zip files or Java can open the jar file and run the Java software that it contains.

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  1. Install the Java runtime environment if it is not already installed.
  2. Double click on the jar file or use the command line java -jar <myjarfile.jar> (will only work for executable jar files. Not all jar files are executable)

To summarize: A jar file can be opened either with decompression software that can handle zip files or Java can open the jar file and run the Java software that it contains.

 

The Java runtime environment was already installed.  But I just reinstalled it.... and now it works. I had also already tried using the command line, I don't know why it didn't work before.  Thanks though

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