Forge 1.6.1 installer

[Emp1]

What is the installer everyone says needs to be used for 1.6.1 forge installation, where do you get it, and how do you use it?

[LexManos]

http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?action=files

After downloading it, you run it.

If you can't figure out what to do once its ran.. then I feel sorry for you... Its one of the simplest things you will ever see.

[Emp1]

Thanks, but how do you execute a .jar file?

[LexManos]

You should know how to do it, they are java's equivalent of exe.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+do+you+execute+a+.jar+file%3F

[Emp1]

How does all that make sense? I don't even understand it.

[LexManos]

All programs need to be loaded by SOMETHING to be run.

Executables are loaded by windows.

Jars are loaded by java.

They are in essence, the same thing.

A book is still a book even if one is written in English and the other is in Sweedish.

[Emp1]

So what form of Java is required to load a .jar file?

[LexManos]

The java runtime environment.

Same java that you need for Minecraft.

The launcher you use for Minecraft is a jar file

Just wrapped in a small exe that does 'java -jar Minecraft.exe'

 

Seriously, how do you not know how to run jar files? They are used in thousands of moden applications.

Either way this is nothing to do with Forge.