jar command missing in Fedora 19?

Question

I just installed Fedora 19 anew from the live cd and I'm having a few issues. One is that I'm trying to install a java application that requires the jar command, but jar can't be found:

jar xf myApp.jar 
bash: jar: command not found...

I have this:

rpm -qa | grep -i java
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25-2.3.10.3.fc19.x86_64
javapackages-tools-0.14.1-2.fc19.noarch
tzdata-java-2013c-1.fc19.noarch

Shouldn't jar be in one of these? If not, could someone please tell me what package provides that?

Answer 1

It's in the "-devel" package, for instance

java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel

To look for a specific file

yum provides */the_file

in this case

yum provides */bin/jar

Comments

Thank you! Very useful "yum provides" command.

Incidentally, I went to file manager and clicked on myApp.jar, opened it  with archive manager, selected the files I needed and it extracted them, so I gues that can handle java archives too.

Answer 2

jar xf myApp.jar
thats not the right command to launch a java app, you surely mean
java -jar yourappname.jar ....