Hey All!

Been on this computer for the last 4 hours trying to resole tis problem. Ive been trying to install LimeWire.bin. It comes up however with the following error message!

"Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH
environment variable. You must install a VM prior to
running this program."

For starters what on earth is this and second of all how would i rectify this little problem..
I hav donwloaed the Java apliucation that i need, but now im having problem installing this!..

Ive tried editong my '.bash_profile' but im not sure if it's correct.. Well obvioulsy not!

I think that this is where the problem lies!

Anyways if someone could help me out tha would be mostly apprciated!

..Murbz

Post your ~/.bash_profile, so that we can see what you did.

You must add the java to your PATH, and set the JAVA_HOME variable.

In your ~/.bash_profile, add the following lines
and also
assuming you have installed java in /usr/local/java

I hope this helps
--Ian

Java normally wants its 'bin' directory in your path. My file looks like
path=PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin

Thanks a lot guys! It Now Works, running the installation as im writing!... Thanx a lot for your help!!!
Now says LimeWire SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED!!!!

Ok, I'm having the same problem, but when I try to add thoselines to my .bash_profile it makes it so I can't log back into the account. I logged back in as root and removed the extra lines and that fixed it. So now I think I did something wrong.

This is my working .bash_profile:

My path to java is /usr/java. Could someone tell me where I need to put the extra lines?

Try adding the lines to ~/.bash_profile, and then typing
This should then give some error messages if you have done something wrong. Post the error messages here, and we can see how to fix them.

--Ian

Hey y'all,
my level of experience is very low, so if you could step by step it, I would so appreciate it. Okay, so I downloaded limewire into its own folder /home/rasgward/limewire
Then I tried to install, finding out that I needed JAVA, so I downloaded the java file j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586-rpm
to the folder /home/rasgward/java
Then I rpm'd it into the same folder I guess. Now when I went back to the limewire folder and repeated the install it gave the same no vm in the path....
While in that stage, I googled the statement "no virtual machine could be found..." and got this thread. I then took or so I thought the advice on here, but still couldn't figure it out. Could you assume I didn't take the advice and go from there and direct me. I also copied the files j2re....rpm and the j2re...rpm.bin to the /usr/local/ area which I thought might help but still didn't really know what I was doing. Please help. Thanks. -Greg

Just link it symbolically. Get the exact path of the java binary and as root cd into /usr/bin and type:

ln -s /usr/pathtojava/bin/java

Then java bnary should be in your path as long as /usr/bin is.

Where can i find my bash profile? Cause i am having the same problem the thread starter has, because when i installed my Slack i got a fatal error message for that tar.gz package and i redownloaded it but i dont where to put it and what to do with it, cause installing it doesnt work alone.

Linux Kernel: 2.4.26
KDE: 3.2
Intel 845 Chipset
SlackWare 10

Your .bash_profile is in your home directory.

Install Java into /usr/local/java, (as root) and then add the lines I posted above to your .bash_profile.

--Ian

This is what i get when i try to install java into /usr/local/java
Also, I dont see the bash profile in my home directory, any chance it could be somewhere else or isnt for some reason in my directory???

Did you download the self-extracting bin file from java.sun.com ?
If not, I suggest you use that one, as that is the one I have used successfully.

In your home directory, do a "ls -a" which will also list the hidden files. If .bash_profile is not there, simply create it with your favourite text editor, and add the lines above. Once you have done this, type "source ~/.bash_profile" and try to execute the command "java". It should give you a brief help message.

I hope this helps
--Ian

Yeah i went to java.sun.com and installed the self extracting .bin file, I set it up in /usr/local/java liked i was supposed to, the install went great. I didnt find a .bash_profile when i checked that directory with "ls -a" so i created one and added the lines like you said. Now when i added those lines and used the comman "source ~/.bash_profile" it doesnt say anything or give me any kind of help file, it just goes back to the root prompt after i use the command and when i try to install LimeWire i get the same old message. Maybe i am still doing something wrong? I dont know how to execute a command, maybe that might be it, is it the "exec" command? If so what do i use with it to execute java? "exec java" doesnt do anything but tell me that java is not found.

Sorry if I was unclear, what happens when you enter the command "java" ?

Did you include the line "export PATH" and "export JAVA_HOME". When you source .bash_profile, you should get no error messages.

--Ian

When I enter the command "Java" it says "command not found". IF you meant if i included "export PATH" and "export JAVA_HOME" for the .bash_profile then yes.