How to install & run colororacle?

Question

ColorOracle is a free color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It help to check an UI Color Design for the Color Vision Impaired people.

Its executable file is a .jar. How to install an run colorOracle ?

Answer 1

On linux, via terminal :

cd ./path/to/myfolder
mkdir colorOracle
curl -o ./colorOracle/ColorOracleJar.zip -C - http://colororacle.org/ColorOracleJar.zip
unzip -n ./colororacle/ColorOracleJar.zip -d ./colorOracle
chmod a+x ./colorOracle/ColorOracle.jar
./colorOracle/ColorOracle.jar

For other OS, see http://colororacle.org

Answer 2

An alternative solution for the run part is to use Java -jaroption :

java -jar ./colorOracle/ColorOracle.jar

Excerpt from the man java page:

-jar

    Execute a program encapsulated in a JAR file. The first argument is the 
    name of a JAR file instead of a startup class name. 
    […./colorOracle/ColorOracle.jar].
    See the Jar tool reference page 
    and the Jar trail of the Java Tutorial @
    http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar for information about 
    working with Jar files and Jar-file manifests.