hey I got LimeWire to work on FreeBSD (unix), so you should get it to work in Linux. I install jre for FreeBSD which is only java 1.8.1 or something like that. the runlime.sh file was
java -cp . RunLime


so I installed linux-jdk13 (Linux Java Development Kit version 1.3.1) which is the Java 2 (J2RE) stuff.

just changed java to javavm and LimeWire worked.


to locate things try the command whereis

ex: whereis java
whereis javavm