is this your computer? use su in order to get root access and then create the directories as needed.

But how would I put the files that are inside the folders into that directory?
/usr/java/bin etc..

if the directory you extracted is called j2jreXXX (this is an example), as root do this command:

cp -R /home/your_regular_user_name/.gnome-desktop/j2jreXXX /usr/java/.

I'm not sure what the desktop directory for gnome is on ubuntu, but that would be the path to my gnome desktop directory.

Kubuntu uses kde, but I got that done. So now what do I do with "/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06" ?

Oh. your profile says ubuntu.

anyhoo... I'm not sure what the jre package has in it, as I use the sdk... but since you've got it installed, open up a shell term and type these commands in sequence:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06

*if there's a bin directory in JAVA_HOME, do the following command:

export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

then type the command to start limewire in the same shell. don't close your shell term.

limewire

see what happens.

Yay progress!

running limewire returns:

root@ubuntu:/home/victor/Desktop# /opt/LimeWire/runLime.sh
Starting LimeWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. LimeWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.
com
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/lib/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://www.java.com
Java exec found in /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/
Suitable java version found [/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java = 1.5.0_06]
Configuring environment...
Loading LimeWire:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY var
iable.
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.access$000(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.showInitialSplash(Main.java:67)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:39)

******************************************************************
Something went wrong with LimeWire.
Maybe you're using the wrong version of Java?
(LimeWire is tested against and works best with with Sun's JRE, Java 1.4+)
The version of Java in your PATH is:
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

yeah, it's the gnus java that's killing you.

Okay, I didn't specify for you to get out of the root console after installing sun's java. so if you're still su'ed as root type exit. type the export commands again, as a regular user:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
limewire

let's see if it happens now.

It worked! YAY! Thank you soo much for your time. Enjoy your holidays. =D

You'll need to put those 2 export commands in your /etc/profile file (you edit this file as root) and then log out of your session and log back in your session. you should now be able to just run limewire without having to type those export commands in the command line.