How to run Luke(Lucene tool)?

Question

I had downloaded 'Lukeall-3.5.0' on http://code.google.com/p/luke/downloads/list It's a JAR file , but i don't know how let it work? Can somebody show me the detailed steps to run Luke? Thank you!

Answer 1

If you want the .jar to run on double click then you have to make an association between .jar files and the program that needs to open them, javaw.exe. You can do this manually by following the steps below, or see this site for an automatic tool called Jarfix.

• Right click the .jar and go to "Properties"
• Click "Change"
• Click "Browse..."
• Navigate to your Java install folder
• In the "bin" folder you should see "javaw"
• Select "javaw" and click "Open"
• Click "OK"
• Click "Apply"

Answer 2

You can run eg. from command line issuing java -jar lukeall-3.5.0.jar command

Answer 3

At first, you need to download and install Java Runtime to your PC.
Then open command prompt: press Windows Key + R, type cmd in the textbox and hit Ok.
Change directory to your jar file locating folder (using cd command), type java -jar .\yourFileName.jar and hit enter.

Hope this will work.

Answer 4

Tried everything including jarfix , javaW commandline but was not running.

Then I downloaded the jar from this link https://code.google.com/archive/p/luke/downloads. there are many .jar and .tgz file. I tried the latest one with "type-executable" label on it. And once it was downloaded somehow the extension got changed to .zip. 1) changed the extension back to .jar 2) right click open with -> Java(this was installed before)

Bingo! Luke opened up!