To create a wrapper or launcher for a jar file open a terminal.
Jnix is a Launch4J compatible utility for wrapping jar files in shell scripts for deployment on Linux and Unix. It can also serve as a launcher script for jar files.
Jnix is a command line utility, you will either need to Create a Launch4J configuration file by hand or use the Launch4J gui.
To create a wrapper or launcher for a jar file open a terminal and navigate to the jnix installation directory then type:
java -jar JnixBuild.jar path to launch4j configuration file
If java is not in your path you will need to provide the full path to java or on linux you can type:
sh ./jnix.sh -jar JnixBuild.jar path to launch4j configuration file
and jnix will find the path to a suitable version of java.
Requirements for running the output shell script are:
BASh version 2 or later must be available and the commands dirname, readlink, which.
The locate and find commands are highly recommended to be installed, on some systems they may be required to find an appropriate java installation.
The following commands may be needed depending on the Launch4J configuration options: xterm or x-terminal-emulator, kdialog or zenity or xmessage, xdg-open, Grep, awk, free, nice you can free download Jnix for liunx 1.0 now.