I went to Sun Microsystem's Website. But for some reason I get a Server Error. I can't get my hands on the Java Runtime system. Could someone help out here so I can get my hands on it?

Try www.tucows.com

No Dice

Have patience. Sometimes the server is overloaded. The best time would be near midnight.

http://java.sun.com/webapps/download...x-i586-rpm.bin

This is direct link. The cookie crap might time out. If it did, then go to

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html

And pick "Linux RPM in self-extracting file - RPM".

But let me ask you something, what are your purpose of installing it? Just for playing games/visiting Java-enabled Websites on Netscape/Mozilla? You could just get the plug-in 13MB vs. 22MB above.

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6...22/xpi/jre.xpi

Ideally, you save that xpi on HD, back it up, install it on all Linux distros. To install, log in as root, open Mozilla/Netscape, browse to this file, open it.

I need it for LimeWire and other web based stuffs.

BTW, the link worked, thanks!!

Ok, j2re v1.4.1 installed. Got ready to install LimeWire, and I got:

No java virtual machine could be found from your PATH enviroment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program.

Isn't j2re v1.4.1 a VM? Or do I need a separate program to get a VM? Or do I need to just reboot my PC?

For me to get it work i first moved the dir contatning the java after extracting it and moved it too /usr/local/bin and then made a symlink from /usr/local/bin/j2re1.4.1/bin/java too /usr/local/bin/java

ln -s /usr/local/bin/j2re1.4.1/bin/java /usr/local/bin/java

I´m using debian and the blackdown java package so maybe your´s have too be a little different, and remember too do this as root.

No Dice

I kept searching and found a suggestion to edit my "/home/Bigun/.bashrc" file and add some kinda path or something, rebooted, and it installed. So I run the command "./runLimeWire", and I now get:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: lax/nl/java/option/java/stack/

help...anyone?

Setup your path via /etc/profile. Locate this line:
# Set the default system $PATH:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin/java/bin"

And add java like I did Your's won't look the same as mine, and mine has the java/bin directory in it. Make sure you have it point ot the subdirectory of java - /bin As shown in my example.

After you will need to "source" the file:
source /etc/profile
And then run your limewire again.

Cool

"source" the file?

Come again?

Also, in my /etc/profile, I cannot find the line:
# Set the default system $PATH:
in it, I also searched for anything that looked like a solid path, no dice. I'm running Red Hat. Should I add this line anyway?

ok this is from memory so don't kill me if it's wrong.

All you (should) have to do is set the environmental variable JAVA_HOME to where the java directory is.

todo this best go to /etc/profile.d/ and create a file java.sh with
the following contents:

#!/bin/bash

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2re1.4.1

(if you have installed java to the /usr/local/j2re1.4.1 directory)

make the file executable and try again. if you have no /etc/profile.d/ write the export entry into you're .bashrc

If you use tcsh call the file in /etc/profile.d/ java.csh and enter

#!/bin/tcsh
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/j2re1.4.1

and set x bit, or enter the setenv line into you're .tcshrc (or whatever you are using).

i hope this helps.