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["Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 14:00:28 +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> I have a program that I'm going to be create a spell or two for (version 
> release and a -devel :) This is written in Java, and uses ant to build. 
> 
> Because it is a java program and not aimed specifically for Linux, it 
> simply creates a .jar file and has a script that runs it. Where would be 
> the apropriate place to put this .jar file. I assume the script could go 
> in /usr/bin, but that doesn't seem right for a .jar.

A possibility, if you are compiling to bytecode, is /usr/share/<package>
since presumably the jar file is architecture independant in that case.
But /usr/lib/<package>/ is possibly a bit more intuitive and would be
the same even if you compiled to a native binary.

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