HELLO ALL
I AM A NEWBIE TO LINUX HOWEVER, I THOUGHT YOU HAD TO UPDATE YOUR PATH NO MATER WHATVERSION OF REDHAT YOU ARE USEING.

I HAVE JUST INSTALLED REDHAT 8.0(KIXKS A$$) AND I HAVE TRIED TO INSTALL LIMEWIRE AND GET THE SAME ERRORS AS EVERYONE ELSE. WHEN YOU SAY EDIT THE BASH PROFILE DO YOU MEAT THE /ETC/PROFILE FILE?? I HAVE TRIED TO INSTALL THIS APP AS ROOT. I ALSO INSTALLED THE JAVA VM AS ROOT AS WELL. AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG??"

From: Anthos


After reading your solution to the prob. installing LimeWire I finally got the installer to work:

I then tried running the prog. And got this error message:

[root@xeio] LimeWire]# sh runLime.sh
/usr/java/jre1.3.1_05/bin/i386/native_threads/java: relocation error: /usr/java/ jre1.3.1_05/lib/i386/libpreemptive_close.so: symbol __libc_sendto, version GLIBC _2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

Have any Sugstns ??
I really appreciate your help

Try this on the commandline (you more than likely will have to be root.

altoine

I run SuSE 8.1
When I try to run the installer "sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin" it starts and then complains that it cannot find libc.so.6 although i have the file. I probably need to do a symlink somewhere. Anybody knows where and under what name?

Tony

Rex forgot to mention that you would have to create that link in the actual directory where libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is located. What Rex is doing is providing a link to the old libc6.1-1.so.2 as that is no longer seen libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.80mdk for my mandrake package which is actually symlinked to /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so.

To find out where your libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so is located type this command:

whereis libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so

find that and then symlink it like this to keep symlinks to a minimum (ie to avoide a symlink to a symlink that is symlinked to an actual file) follow these instructions;

First, go to the directory where the whereis program located your file and then type:

ls -l libstdc++*

we type this command to check to see if the symlink:

libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.2

isn't already present. If it isn't then create the symlink:

ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.2


Thank you Rex for posting the solution to the Suse 8.1 runtime issue with glibc-type error messages when trying to execute limewire after a successful install, as I couldn't since I had to remove Suse 8.1 to reconfigure my development box.

altoine

You Da Man!!

I type
java -version
<output>
bash: java: command not found

I type
which -b java
<output>
type: usage: type [-apt] name [name ...]


I type ./LimeWireLinux.bin
<output>
Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH
environment variable. You must install a VM prior to
running this program.


Yes Java is installed I installed j2re then j2sdk incase I missed something, sucsessful Java Install but there is no obvious way to tell just no errors therefore good.

jameswilson@roadrunner.nf.net

That is why the command:

which java

is so beautiful! It means that java isn't properly configured on your system. Definitely when you type this command:

java -version

and don't get tthe apropriate response.

Let us try to help you out here. Let me use the more recent java package to run you through the install process...


1) I go to java.sun.com and get the latest java package: j2se 1.4.1.

2) I next download it to my home directory.

3) I make the package executable if it isn't like this:

chmod +x j2sdk-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin

4) I next execute the package:

sh j2sdk-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin

5) I agree to the licensing terms.

6) I am left with:

j2sdk-1_4_1_01-fcs-linux-i586.rpm

I install this as root:

rpm -Uvh j2sdk-1_4_1_01-fcs-linux-i586.rpm

7) Make sure it is installed by typing this command:

java -version


This should output:

java version "1.4.1_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1_01-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1_01-b01, mixed mode)

8) Now, that linux has java installed and running. We are left with configuring linux for java development/limewire installation.

9) Find where java is installed on your system with this command:

which java

You should have this exact output:

/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java

10) edit your .bash_profile (or .bashrc if your system doesn't come with .bash_profile) and add these lines to this file:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:

***SPECIAL NOTE***
Make sure that you don't forget the period (.) at the beginning of your file as this denotes your file as a hidden file, which what .bash_profile and .bashrc are!

Type:

ls .bash*

to verify what you have on your system.

********************

11) Then we activate these changes with the following command:

source .bash_profile

or simply logout and then back in if you prefer the M$ way of doing things.

12) Install LimeWire as instructed to do so as a regular user.

Otherwise, this link might help:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...9810#post59810

altoine

I have had install problems with Limewire on Red Hat 8.0 that are exactly like those described by others in this forum. I have tried both the Sun 1.4 SDK and the Sun 1.4 jre. I could not get Limewire to install on either even though I would get the following output when running the 'java -version' command:

java version "1.4.1_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1_01-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1_01-b01, mixed mode)

When I ran a 'which java' command, it came back with /usr/bin/java instead of /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java.

rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/java pointed to the jdkgcj rpm.

rpm -e --nodeps jdkgcj and voila! Installs like a charm.

Herb

Thank you, Herb! I knew that it was a java program that was causing the problem but didn't similiar problems as I do an Expert installation everytime and choose all my packages by hand.
I will definitely have to update and include that feature in the howto. Is this ok with you, Herb?

altoine