Frostwire.deb Install Help

carlosinfl · 05-22-2006, 12:57 PM

OK - My Debian Etch PC is missing a P2P client so I decided to check Frostwire since it worked so nice using Ubuntu: http://www.frostwire.com/

My question = There is a download for Debian which is a .deb file but I am not sure how to install this from here.

Code:

cwilliams@nucleus:~/Desktop$ ls
FrostWire-4.10.9-1.i586.deb

Can someone please assit me in how to install this package and get this application working.

pljvaldez · 05-22-2006, 12:58 PM

Generally you do dpkg -i filename.deb to install and dpkg -r filename.deb to remove.

carlosinfl · 05-22-2006, 01:06 PM

Thanks - It would appear I don't have Java or something needed for Frostwire to run properly...

SexyAsh · 08-16-2006, 07:16 AM

Hi i installed frostwire but when i click on it nothing happens i have the right version of java but it doesnt do anything

JackieBrown · 08-16-2006, 06:37 PM

Thats's because frostwire is look at a different spot for java than where debian installs it. You can fix that with a sys link

FinalX · 11-29-2006, 11:36 AM

how do i make a sys link?

freephile · 04-12-2007, 07:36 PM

It's called a 'symbolic' link, or symlink for short. A symbolic link is also sometimes called a 'soft' link (as opposed to a hard link). see man ln for more details. The basic form is
[HTML]ln -s target alias[/HTML]

more detailed e.g.
[HTML]greg@liberty:~$ which vi
/usr/bin/vi
greg@liberty:~$ file /usr/bin/vi
/usr/bin/vi: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/vi'
greg@liberty:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-09-14 22:02 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim[/HTML]

What that shows is that the 'vi' command is actually linked to 'vim'

Dutch Master · 04-12-2007, 08:05 PM

Thanks for the reply, but do you think the guy asking the question would still have a need for it?

phantom_cyph · 04-12-2007, 08:23 PM

hey, I just installed it as well, it didn't list any dependencies when I checked with Gdebi, but when I click on it, nothing happens. What is needed?

JackieBrown · 04-12-2007, 08:37 PM

run it from the comand line and see where it is looking for java

phantom_cyph · 04-12-2007, 09:14 PM

This is what I got.

Quote:

kevan@debian:~$ frostwire
Starting FrostWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. FrostWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com
ls: /usr/lib/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/lib/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: /usr/java/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/java/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: /opt/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /opt/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
kevan@debian:~$

For some reason, my synaptic does not list J2R like Ubuntu did. I have tried downloading it, but always in vain due to stupid dependencies I couldn't find.

JackieBrown · 04-12-2007, 09:29 PM

Try sun-java5-bin

Unless frostfire has changed its deb, you might get the same error as before. That is where the sym link would come to play.

Try installing it and if you we help, the sym link is the easy part.

violettheconqueror · 04-30-2007, 09:01 PM

Im having a similar problem in slackware 11.0. I tried symlinking /usr/lib/jre1.5.0_09/bin/java to /usr/java (which is where azureus is looking for it) but azureus gives me the same error:

Code:

Starting Azureus...
Java exec not found in PATH, starting auto-search...
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /usr/java/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://java.sun.com

and when I try and cd into /usr/lib/jre1.5.0_09/bin/java or usr/java i get the error

Code:

bash: cd: /usr/java: Too many levels of symbolic links

any ideas?

phantom_cyph · 04-30-2007, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JackieBrown

Try sun-java5-bin

Unless frostfire has changed its deb, you might get the same error as before. That is where the sym link would come to play.

Try installing it and if you we help, the sym link is the easy part.

That command doesn't install Java either...

phantom_cyph · 05-02-2007, 06:02 PM

I went to this site and downloaded the self-extracting file for Linux x86. However, when I try to open it, (ie, clicking on it) it says it doesn't know what to do with it. All the other times I've had something like this, it installs itself on opening.