I can't get the installer to open

[Hamford]

I have tried all the java files on my computer but non of them worker can some please help me

[luacs1998]

http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php/topic,10722.msg54672.html#msg54672

[Hamford]

http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php/topic,10722.msg54672.html#msg54672

that doesnt help me im doing what they say and theyre not working

[LexManos]

Yes because your posts are so descriptive we know EXACTLY what you're doing wrong..

[saxon564]

I'm actually having this same problem, i dont know if its happening the same way, but the forge installer won't boot. I have tried all the java boot files i could find, only one of them does something but closes down immidiately, no errors pop up, it just shuts down. I know its not something with the forge file so i have been looking for a tutorial of how to manually install forge, but have come up short.

[Jasertio]

Try opening the installer with 7-zip or similar program. If it opens then your file is fine, and you have a different problem. If it gives you an error message, you did not download the file correctly.

[saxon564]

It opens fine in winRAR, but every way ive seen on how to get it to run the installer has done nothing. I've run into a dead end here and the only thing i can think of is to use the universal, which as i said earlier, i dont know how to install correctly.

[LexManos]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/jarfix.html

[saxon564]

i downloaded and ran that program but it has done nothing to fix the problem, the only difference right now is that it now asks what i want to open it with. ive tried running it in cmd which says, "Error: Unable to access jarfile minecraftforge" (what i changed the name of the file to, to make it easier to put in.)

[robin4002]

.jar

You forgot the extension...

[saxon564]

no change other than it now says "Error: Unable to access jarfile minecraftforge.jar" i personally would like to just know how to manually install forge since currently nothing that has been suggested has worked for me.

[LexManos]

Give us detailed instructions on what you're doing seriously it shouldn't be this hard and manual installations a PITA.

You have to make sure to be in the same folder as the jar -.-

 

[saxon564]

Give us detailed instructions on what you're doing seriously it shouldn't be this hard and manual installations a PITA.

You have to make sure to be in the same folder as the jar -.-

 

well lex, you helped with that without really trying with this post after i read that i put the exact path into cmd (the one item i dont use often enough to know how to fully work it), and it worked. thank you.

 

Edit: and yes i know that it gets annoying seeing these topics, but im sorry for not fully understanding what i had to do. Thanks again!