[Biojava-l] Newbie Installation Question

[mark.schreiber at novartis.com]

If you are using WinZip on windows the jar icon looks the same as a zip 
file. This is because winzip can read JAR files not because they are zip 
files. You never need to unzip a zip file (even if it is actually zipped).

The source and docs files are zipped (usually .tar.gz) many modern IDEs 
don't require these to be unzipped either. If you are not using an IDE you 
will need to unzip them so you can view them.

- Mark





"Richard HOLLAND" <hollandr at gis.a-star.edu.sg>
Sent by: biojava-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org
08/22/2005 09:38 AM

 
        To:     <manaster at pobox.com>, <biojava-l at biojava.org>
        cc:     (bcc: Mark Schreiber/GP/Novartis)
        Subject:        RE: [Biojava-l] Newbie Installation Question


You just have to download the jar files from
http://www.biojava.org/download14.html . There's no such thing as
'installing' it really - just download the jar files, then make sure
they're on your classpath (or set them up as a library in your IDE).

If Internet Explorer is renaming or doing stuff behind the scenes to the
jar files when you download them, try using Firefox (I haven't used IE
for so long I can't remember how to fix that particular problem).

cheers,
Richard

Richard Holland
Bioinformatics Specialist
GIS extension 8199
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:biojava-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Carl Manaster
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 4:31 AM
> To: biojava-l at biojava.org
> Subject: [Biojava-l] Newbie Installation Question
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to Java, new to biojava.  I tried to install biojava, but
> instead of .jar files winding up in my Windows directory, I get .zip
> files.  When I expand them, I get folders META-INF and org, which I
> suspect are really supposed to be in the .jar file.  I tried renaming
> .zip to .jar, but Eclipse wasn't happy with it.  Could someone please
> pass along really simple instructions?  Sorry for the bother.
> 
> Peace,
> --Carl Manaster
>   manaster at pobox.com
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