Trouble with installing frostwire
 

I recently attempted to install frostwire on my ubuntu system, and well it seems that ive installed it, but when i go to open it, it doesnt open. Now ive read on some forums that you may need to have Java to run frostwire.

do i have to uninstall it and reinstall Java and or FrostWire?

and if so how do i go about doing that?



any suggestions?



LinuxNoob

Grant.

you definately need java installed to run frostwire.
so you haven't installed java yet?
or have you already installed it?
there is a good tutorial about frostwire here at the forum.

sudo apt-get java (i believe that's how i installed it.)

dpkg-reconf
 

hi, i believe you got do something like this:

$sudo dpkg-reconfigure java-common

or maybe this one:

$sudo update-alternatives --config java

there are some great threads here on java and frostwire both. work on the java first. once you git that done, frostwire should work. and also try:
sudo apt-get java

the terminal gives me an error when i enter in sudo apt-get java. it says "no such directory" something of that nature.

but i will search for those java forums you guys are talking about.

thanks alot!

grant.

i really need to start keeping a journal of what i do and how i do along with links and ect....

wish i could be of more help to you. please keep us updated on how you do. good luck.

it's apt-get install java, though I think the package is actually named something slightly different than just java. You can do a search by apt-cache search java . It might be easier to use Synaptic at first which is a frontend for apt.

If you haven't already found it a good website is The ubuntu guide

yeah i have used the ubuntu guide like the bible the past few days while getting used to my ubuntu system, but the commands look right, but i get the error message -

E: Couldn't find package java

and when i search for java in the terminal, i get a HUGE List of things that have the word java attached to them.

now, i have tried searching for java in synaptic and installed everything that is there when i searched for java. but still no luck!

thanks alot for your support guys!

but still no luck...

any suggestions?

well since the ubuntuguide says to read the section about java in the instructions for frostwire that may be a good place to start.

I don't use ubuntu anymore, so if that doesn't work I wouldn't know if there's more to it. If it doesn't post any error messages and we can try to help.

apt-get install sun-java5-jre or check this site: http://wiki.serios.net/wiki/Ubuntu_J...h_java-package

one of these two should help, please read the site first before you try anything though.