Picard install problem

Question

[agicict]

Hello.

I am trying to install picard-1.73 because of some reasons.

I downloaded picard 1.73 from sourceforge and unzipped it.

However, I cannot execute following command.

java -jar picard-1.73.jar -h

Error message is

Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from

picard-1.73.jar

I changed java version from 6 to 9 but all failed.

What should I do to run it?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

I am trying to install picard-1.73

picard-1.73 ? sourceforge is deprecated for picard. download the latest version 2.9.0 : https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard/releases/tag/2.9.0

Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from

because as far as I remember in the old version of picard, 'picard.jar' was just the library. The main classes where splitted in their own *.jar

e.g: java -cp a.jar:b:jar:c.jar:MarkDuplicate.jar -h

don't do this with picard 2.9;0

java -jar picard.jar -h

I changed java version from 6 to 9 but all failed.

java 8 is required

[agicict]

Really helpful comment! Thank you.