ant limewire and java [solved]
 

for slackware 10.1

I would really like to get limewire to work. All the binaries i have dont work, and it looks like compiling is the only way. to compile limewire i need to install java, install apache's ant, and use them to build the limewire source code. :(

None of these I really know how to go about. I tried to install java and ant, but I dont know nearly enough to install them correctly.

of course, a slackware compiled version of limewire would also work, but I haven't had any luck with that.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.


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EDIT:

ok, prob was i needed to install the SDK version of Java. having done that, the binaries of ant worked and then i was able to compile limewire.

- look on the cd for java or try to follow instructions on java.sun.com. There are lots of threads on this forum about java.
- for limewire you can try linuxpackages.net or use rpm2tgz to get a limewire package
- installing ant consist in extracting files from the archive(tar.bz2 or tar.gz)

I eventually gave up on Limewire... here's what I'm using now:
http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/

Limewire work right out of the box for me ! lol.

What are you downloading from Limewire ? Recently on my Slamd64 I didn't downlaod the binaries, just the other option, and ran the script "./runLime.sh" and it works perfect.

Doesn't it find java at all ?