installing java libraries

[Thufir]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:15:48 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Thufir wrote:
> 
>> How do you go about "installing" jars?  I'll configure an IDE,
>> netbeans, to use the jar as a library.
[...]
> 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).


Ok, thanks.  I've just manually installed them for now and will probably 
leave it as is.

I may look at the classpath later.



-Thufir