How to get OHA2 to install .jar files in addons folder

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@Spaceman_Spiff

The .kar file was downloaded into the addon folder, but it does not show up in paper ui.

It’s a difference: downloading the kar file just makes the addons available instantly, otherwise they have to be downloaded during installation:

A single distro from now on!

All, Today we again have a major update of the openHAB distro. I worked heavily on a bigger refactoring during the last days, which resulted in a single distro, so that users no longer have to choose between online and offline distro. You can find the snapshot builds on our Jenkins at Cloudbees - it is now simply called openhab-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.zip/tar.gz. If you download this, it will behave the same way as the online distro before, i.e. it does not include any add-ons, but will load them on d…

For the ones that loved the offline distro (like myself): There is an easy way to get it back! Just additionally download the file openhab-addons-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.kar and place it in your local addons/ folder - this will immediately make all add-ons available offline and you can safely deactivate the online repo access (in addons.cfg or through the Paper UI). You can even do the same now with the legacy add-ons (which were only available online before) - simply download the openhab-addons-legacy-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.kar and put it into the addons/ folder.

Manually installing an addon by putting them into the /addons folder makes addons available which are not yet part of the openHAB distro (=are not showing up in PaperUI), like @job already mentioned.