Installing LimeWire with user privileges
This is a nublie tutorial for a problem a ran into multiple times when 'installing' LimeWire Basic.
I am trying to get out of the habit of installing programs with apt-get requiring (for install) root privileges when not needed. Not that I don't like apt-get, it's pretty awesome. So a lot of the apps I run at the user level are in my /home/me/apps folder. It can make things a little more complicated, but with programs such as firefox, thunderbird, LimeWire, jre..etc. it isn't too bad. Also, I use this as only a personal desktop computer... so I have jre1.6.0_11 unpacked in my /home/me/apps folder along with LimeWire. My problem is that when I execute ./runLime.sh I get an error like this: OOPS, unable to locate java exec ..... This shouldn't be happening (since I have java installed in /usr/bin/java). So I decided to point runLime.sh to jre1.6.0_11 in my home folder and here is how. vim runLime.sh (showing only the needed portion): ".... look_for_java() { JAVADIR=/usr/bin if look_for_javaImpl ; then return 0 fi JAVADIR=/usr/lib if look_for_javaImpl ; then return 0 fi JAVADIR=/usr/java if look_for_javaImpl ; then return 0 fi JAVADIR=/opt if look_for_javaImpl ; then return 0 fi return 1 } ....." even though I have a valid java exec. in /usr/bin, every time I have tried to run LimeWire it never finds this. So I completely removed the aforementioned section from the shell script and replaced it with: "...... JAVA_PROGRAM_DIR=/home/me/jre1.6.0_11/ ...." Simple problem I know but it took me a minute to figure out and the problem occurred on multiple unrelated occasions. This works for me. I guess I should also add the reason I like using the jre1.6x as apposed to the 'apt-get installed' java V1.5x, is the problem I had with java and compiz. With java V1.5x the contents in the Limewire window would not be drawn rendering LimeWire non-functional while running compiz. This hasn't happened with jre1.6x |
Just incase you cant figure it out ..theres frostwire..basically open source version of limewire..
http://www.frostwire.com/ |
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