JH_CLASSPATH(1)

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💅 JH_CLASSPATH — like, the javahelper manual, bestie 💅

okay so this is the page for jh_classpath, and it lives in the javahelper manual (section 1, obvs). sit down, grab a strawberry, we're learning 💖

✨ NAME ✨

jh_classpath — sets classpaths in jar files 🫙

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

jh_classpath [debhelper options]
jh_classpath [debhelper options] [-ppackage] [--classpath=cp] [jar [...]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

jh_classpath is a javahelper program, and its whole job — its moment, its main character arc — is setting the classpath on jar files for you. no cap. 💅

it has two modes of operations, and the way that it just switches between them? iconic.

Mode one, the default 🎀: it reads debian/package.classpath or debian/classpath and sets the classpath of every single jar file listed in that file. slay. but heads up — in this mode, jh_classpath does not accept any non-option arguments. none. zero. periodt.

Mode two, the "actually bestie, here's my jar list" era 🌈: you pass jh_classpath a list of jar files to update. it'll process each one of those and set the classpath of them to that value set by --classpath, if you passed it. if --classpath is omitted, the environment variable CLASSPATH gets used instead (rewriting its contents as necessary 🔁). and in this mode, jh_classpath will not read debian/package.classpath nor debian/classpath. lowkey she's committed to the bit.

📁 FILES 📁

  • debian/package.classpath, debian/classpath — these get parsed to determine which jar files should be processed for the given package. now listen, because this part is a lil different from the other debhelper commands 👀 — unlike most of them, jh_classpath will use debian/classpath as a fallback configuration file for all packages that it acts on. other debhelper commands usually only apply this fallback to the "main package". she's generous like that 💖

the file consists of 0 or more lines with the following:

jarfile classpath-file1 [... classpath-file2]

and note that each file in the classpath is space-separated in this configuration file. yes, spaces. remember it. 🍓

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -ccp, --classpath=cp — sets the classpath, bestie 💅

beyond the above, jh_classpath also accepts the shared debhelper options documented in debhelper(7). go look, iykyk 🧚

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • debhelper(7)
  • this program is a part of javahelper and uses debhelper as backend. 🛠️
  • there are also tutorials in /usr/share/doc/javahelper. go read them, they ate. 🔥

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> — king behavior, respectfully 👑

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — version 0.82, dated 2026-05-17, straight from the javahelper corner of the universe. now go set those classpaths. mwah 🫶💖✨

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