Same thing happened for me on mandrake 8 but here is how you can get it working.

go to java.sun.com and install the java jre if you don't already have it.

download LimeWireOther.zip

type this "java -classpath LimeWireOther.zip install"

Wherever you told it to install LimeWire you can just do a "./LimeWire" and it works fine.