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Right now, I'm posting from Debian on a virtual machine, and it looks pretty nice. But one problem: I'm such a noob at it. Don't laugh at me, please, but - how do I run an application? I don't want to have to read a full tutorial just to understand how to open an application, so would someone please tell me what to do?

I think I downloaded the java self-installer. Whenever I open it, it wants me to select an application to open it with.

Where would that be?

Take a screenshot. I have no idea how Debian looks compared to Ubuntu. They might look the same, but idk.

Quote from Xaanos

You should be able to right click open with package manger or something.

I can't find that option.

Quote from thenerdal

Take a screenshot. I have no idea how Debian looks compared to Ubuntu. They might look the same, but idk.

I don't think I'm allowed to upload photos.

Quote from MineMan_620

I think I downloaded the java self-installer. Whenever I open it, it wants me to select an application to open it with.

Use OpenJDK to run it. Debian doesn't come with Sun/Oracle Java pre-installed like Ubuntu and Mint.

If performance isn't very good, install Sun Java and run Minecraft with that instead:

1. Open up Synaptic. It should be in your applications menu.
2. From the bar across the top go to Settings > Repositories.
3. Click on the Third Party Software tab and click Add near the bottom.
4. Enter "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free".
5. Repeat with "deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free"
6. Run "sudo apt-get update" if Aptitude doesn't automatically update itself.
7. Run "sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre".

Alternatively:

1. Open a Terminal. (Get used to this step.)
2. Run "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list".
3. Add "contrib non-free" to the lines that point to your current repository for regular packages. For example, mine looks like:

   			deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
   			deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
   			

4. Run "sudo apt-get update".
5. Run "sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre".

Quote from thenerdal

Take a screenshot. I have no idea how Debian looks compared to Ubuntu. They might look the same, but idk.

Distros don't really have a "look". They can have a default color scheme, but other than that looks are determined by desktops environments.

If you are a linux noob, i would suggest a more user friendly distro like ubuntu.

also, like said above, you need to install java.

then you would either double click on .jar file (after setting it executable) or right click on it and open with Java

(although a script would be better)

I'm not sure if it works the same on Debian, but on Mint(or Fedora I can't remember) you had to right click the file and go under some properties option. From there just look around until you find a box that says "run as executable" or something like that and you should be able to run it by double-clicking once you do that.