command 'jar' is missing

[Moses Moore]

the apt-* tools thinks the command 'jar' can be found in the openjdk-7-jdk package...

moses@deunan:~$ jar
The program 'jar' can be found in the following packages:
 * openjdk-6-jdk
 * fastjar
 * gcj-4.4-jdk
 * gcj-4.6-jdk
 * gcj-4.5-jdk
 * openjdk-7-jdk
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

... but it does not get added to the normal $PATH when installed.

moses@deunan:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
openjdk-7-jdk is already the newest version.
moses@deunan:~$ which jar || echo "** not found"
** not found
moses@deunan:~$ dpkg -L openjdk-7-jdk |grep /jar$
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin/jar

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: openjdk-7-jdk 7~b147-2.0-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic-pae 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 25 16:16:16 2012
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openjdk-7
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (103 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

what does this show?

$ update-alternatives --list jar

did you mess around with manual symlinks yourself?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for openjdk-7 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Moses Moore (moses-mozai)]

(didn't see the request for more information, but did see the expiry notice. weird.)

"did you mess around with manual symlinks yourself?"
After I attempted to fix the problem with multiple installs of the packages suggested, I made a symlinks in /usr/local/bin/. I should hope that making a symlink in /usr/local/bin/ would not demolish the /etc/alternatives/ ecosystem.

Upgraded to 12.10 since this bug was filed. I had four alternatives for '/usr/bin/jar' after upgrading to 12.10.
Wiped them all out, removed the /usr/local/bin/ symlink. Reinstalled package 'openjdk-7-jdk' and dependencies (not recommendations nor suggestions).

$ update-alternatives --list jar
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin/jar

Please mark this issue as obsolete/ already fixed.