I am trying to install LImeWire, but I am getting an error.
It says I should have some VM installed ( JAva virtual machine).
What is it, and what am I supposed to do??
Thank you

loke137

www.java.sun.com you need java virtual machine and you need to install it before you install limewire because limewire runs on java so that it can more easily be multi-platform

are there alternatives to limewire that dont require Java?

oh hell yes.

http://gtk-gnutella.sf.net (and many others)

well done for thinking that! so many people refue to believe there are alternatives, no matter how many times they are told otherwise... they want their limewire and java headache...

Personally I've run into more headaches with gtk-gnutella then limewire. You should install java anyway because you will need the plugin for your browser. Don't be nervous. Once you download the binary just change the permissions so that is an executable and install it.

I have unpacked both packages, j2re and j2sdk. What should I do with them? or is it installed already?

If all fails, I have instructions for doing the install of the J2SDK. I installed it on RH8 and Mandrake 9: < http://members.shaw.ca/trollking/ > BTW I have limewire running on my system.

i've done all of this stuff, including following the link above on how to install skd, but my limewire still will not install. i wish i could get it figured out. here's my error.....

[ben@hr ben]$ sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin
Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

Launching installer...

Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx100331648'.
Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'.
Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Stack Trace:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGd9
at ZeroGed.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86c182a)
at ZeroGee.<init>(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86c8d73)
at ZeroGed.<init>(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x821b452)
at ZeroGdv.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x864d337)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86918f1)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.c(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86721ac)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8344ac2)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke0(Method.java:native)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:256)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82bc9d6)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82033ed)



any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ummm...before you run the LimeWire install script try doing this:

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/java

of course, replace /path/to/java with your actual path to java. Mine is in /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin

i can set the path, but when i restart the computer, it loses my settings. so how am i supposed to take advantage of changing the path?

If you want to set things PERMANTLY in your path then edit the /etc/profile file.

ok i set the path as you said, checked and made sure i've got the right directory for my java. its '/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02'. still getting the same error when i run the limewire installer. and also the other gnutella programs i got suck, in my opinion: i couldn't find ANY good downloads. they were all brittney spears and shit....

Use dcgui.

/me shivers ...

I just googled for dcgui and got almost only
security issues? :}

Cheers,
Tink

http://freshmeat.net/projects/dcgui/?topic_id=251


It's p2p, of course it's a security nightmare

Cool