problem with limewire
 

I downloaded the LimeWire.rpm file, then i did the following:

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bash-3.00# rpm2tgz LimeWireLinux.rpm
bash-3.00# installpkg LimeWireLinux.tgz
Installing package LimeWireLinux...
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

bash-3.00# limewire
sh: runLime.sh: No such file or directory
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What did I do wrong?

looks like a PATH error
try
source /etc/profile
then runlime.sh

but - you should never run an internet application as root!

Can you download the source and compile it from source? Might be better.

I dunno though

I installed Limewire the same way through rpm2tgz, and it'll work by simply typing "limewire" (minus quotes) in the "run" command box or in the terminal.

Takes a little while to load up on my oldish box, but works very well.

I tried not runnign it as root and i get the same problem:

c_olin@localhost:~$ limewire
sh: runLime.sh: No such file or directory


Any suggestions?

Did it install to your home directory cd Limewire ./runLime.sh

This might explain:

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bash-3.00# whereis LimeWire
LimeWire: /usr/lib/LimeWire
bash-3.00# cd /usr/lib/LimeWire
bash-3.00# ls
COPYING LimeWire.jar
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shouldn't runLime.sh be in that folder?

any ideas at all?? :(

Can anyone help me here? I realy need to get this up and running

give us the output of the following commands run as a user (not root)

if you have slocate set up, or
if you don't

and
Java must be in your PATH for runlime.sh to work. It should be, but the second command will tell for sure. If it gives you a version information, it's in your PATH. If it doesn't, thats a whole new problem for a new post.

Once you get the actual location of runlime.sh, you can symlink it like so:


or just grab gtk-gnutella http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g...r.bz2?download
and
press enter for all questions, the defaults are fine
gtk-gnutella connects to the same gnutella network as LimeWire, is open source, isn't a crummy Java app, is free, and is very easy to use.

err, i dont have java :(

wierd, I installed Slackware with all packages. How do I enable java?

(when i run java -version it says 'bash: java: command not found')

Check if you've installed a package called j2sdk, this is Java 2 Software Development Kit and includes the JRE Java Runtime Enviroment which is what you need to run Java programs. If you do, then you've Java installed, maybe it's not on the PATH. If you do, then add to your ~/.profile file a line like: PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jdk1.5.0_01/bin/

I guess this proves I do have it...

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bash-3.00# whereis java
java: /usr/lib/java /usr/include/java /usr/share/java
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I'm stumped :|

It sounds like your LimeWire directory is screwed up. If you only have 2 files in there, it must be.

It's really not kidding. It can't find 'runLime.sh' because it's not there... Re-download the rpm file from their web site and convert it again... Something screwy must have happened somewhere... I downloaded the rpm file and converted it and it has all that stuff in there for me...

And I think Pat quit using Java SDK.. You should have j2re installed, not j2sdk, depending on which version of Slack your running. Either one will work tho.

try echo $PATH on your box and compare. /usr/lib/java/bin and /usr/lib/java/jre/bin are the important bits for this problem.

Then reference jong357's post about incomplete install of LimeWire.

i had the same problems with limewire, just go to

http://www.linuxpackages.net

and search for the limewire package, download it and install it with the installpkg command in the CLI.
it should get it up and running.

Ok Simple solution guys. Heres the answer straight from my simple mind. I have Gentoo, and I use blackdown-jre. well...."java" is actually in /opt/blackdown-jre-<version>/bin. So what I did was

$> ln -s /opt/blackdown-jre<version>/bin/java /usr/bin/java

wha'La! the java command exists, and limewire started up. *bows* thangu thangu.

Another very easy install is :

1. download the .zip-file from the limewire download page
2. Unzip it
3. make sure that the file runLime.sh points to the correct java directory (edit it with emacs/kwrite/... . It tries to look for java in /usr/java, but my java is in /usr/local/java, so I had to change that manually)
4. run runLime.sh

Works for me anyway.
Good luck.

Hello. First off, i am using Slack 11, kernel 2.6.17.13. I got x and the nvidia drivers working. My java version is 'java version "1.5.0_09"' (i type java -version and that's what i get).

So, that's my current config, but i get this error when running the runLime.sh script:
Now, it says there that it has found a suitable java version for limewire to work with, but, says that No X11 DISPLAY variable was set. So, i guess the problem narrows down to this. At the end, the error says that perhaps i am using the wrong version of java, but if you look into runLime.sh, that's only some hard coded text that is being displayed. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is the problem.

Please let me know what else you need to help me, or if i've given the right info, then that's cool and you should be able to help me out.

Thanks in advance, as always, LQ rules!

Go here: http://www.slackbuilds.org/repository/network/LimeWire/
Follow instructions: http://www.slackbuilds.org/howto/
Install resulting package.
Run LimeWire. A wrapper script to start it correctly is install to /usr/bin, and a menu entry is created to run it from your desktop if desired.

I doubt that's going to help.. He's executing runLime.sh just as the wrapper script would. Seems to be a java problem... If you google for your error, some other people are having the same problem. Your best bet would be to post on the limewire forums. That's probably what I would do.

What version of Limewire are you running? Try using the stable 4.12.6 if your not. I suppose you could also try robw810's suggestion just for sh@t's and giggles but I fail to see how that will fix anything. As long as your cd'ing into the limewire folder and then doing a "sh runLime.sh" or a "./runLime.sh", your doing it the only way you can.

I hate to ask such a stupid question but, you do have X running when you try to start limewire, right? ;) The error indicates that java can't communicate with the X server in order to open the initial Limewire splash screen. Then it keeps trying to open up the rest of the program and fails at that too.

That tells me either you don't have X running or something is wrong with your X environment. Probably has nothing to do with limewire OR java.

Well, your question's fine. Yes, i do have X running. I have installed kopete and looking forward to install xine. I even had the nvidia driver installed after having it give a hell of a battle. I'll try an older version of java and then drop down on limewire too, just in case. Thanks dudes.

same problem - simple solution
 

Well I had the same problem and error running limewire and what I did was to execute the jar file from the limewire directory

and limewire is working fine now...hope works for u too

The SlackBuilds.org project also has a slackbuild for Limewire:

This will repackage Limewire as a neat and working slackware package

Good idea koriel... Then you've just determined that's it's a problem with runlime.sh, which is just a wrapper script as well.

This still won't fix the error. Taken from the SlackBuild you posted:

Limewire problem in slackware
 

Thanks a lot ppl... I had the same issue as c_olin, my java wasn't found. I got limewire package from linuxpackage.net and installed it using pkgtool. Then I had to alter the runLime.sh and under look_for_java(). I made sure /usr/bin was a path
JAVADIE=/usr/bin
which is what Maxwell Rain suggested. Then I found my /path/to/jre<version>/bin/java because that the java I have loaded in slack 10.2 and did what leeBoi did
<root>: ln -s /path/to/jre<version>/bin/java /usr/bin/java
I complete the above task as a user and su'd to root when needed. My limewire directory was in /usr/share. :twocents:

Maybe this will help someone else out like you guys did for me...

Why run limewire with its nagging you to by the pro version google frostwire