installing java libraries

[Derek Broughton]

Thufir wrote:

> How do you go about "installing" jars?  I'll configure an IDE, netbeans,
> to use the jar as a library.
> 
> 
> Would I just navigate to:
> 
> https://rome.dev.java.net/
> 
> and download rome-1.0RC2.jar
> 
> 
> to /usr/share/java ?  Seems a bit fragile to set all that up manually.

Not really, since they're self-contained.  Using apt to install jars seems
like overkill.

Still, most jars are available as lib*-java from the Ubuntu repos.  I try
there first, and if I can't find what I want, I just drop the appropriate
jar into /usr/share/java (otoh, I'm getting away from using java anyway).
-- 
derek