Install help

jckmisha

New member
Hi, I held off posting this until I'd tried all I could think of, I've downloaded everthing fit to download and unpacked it, I appearl to be missing the 'where' of where the launcher is. Any help would be appreciated.
 

fronobulax

Developer
Staff member
There is no launcher, as such.

On Windows I double click on the jar file to start it. I could also open a command console and type "start <name of jar file>" or type "java -jar <name of jar file>"

While more details could be provided the process is basically download the jar file, stick it in a directory and then launch/start/execute the jar file.

Downloading "everything" and unpacking suggests you are doing more than expected.

If you come across a Windows installer don't use it.

If you're not on Windows and can't extrapolate from the above let us know what OS.

https://wiki.kolmafia.us/index.php/Installation is not quite up to date but might help. But the documentation I can find seems to assume the reader knows how to run a jar file on their system.
 

jckmisha

New member
Hey, I really appreciate you responding. I have the flu so I'm operating on about 3 brain cells. From Github there is the 26mb zip file with the extension .jar, but once unpacked I can't find a .jar file within it. I know I'm doing something really stupid here, and I appreciate any further help you can throw my way.
 

Veracity

Developer
Staff member
The jar file is what you execute.
Even though it is in zip format, do not unpack it.
Just run it.
 

fronobulax

Developer
Staff member
I went to https://github.com/kolmafia/kolmafia

I then pressed release in the bottom left. That took me to a page for the latest release. Towards the bottom is a section called Assets and you can click on the KoLmafia jar file to download the jar.

People are used to getting a build from https://ci.kolmafia.us/ where you cal press KoLmafia and get a page with a jar as a successful artifact.

I wonder if you grabbed a zip file for the complete project which is more useful if you are building or compiling and not using git.
 

jckmisha

New member
Thank you all for the help, I finally got it working. Still some work to be done, but the java -jar and filename finally worked (after downloading yet another java). You guys are awesome!
 
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