There appears to be no download link for LimeWire for the Sun/Sparc/Solaris platform, but I did find mention of such a beast in the User Guide. Can someone enlighten me about how to get the proper download? I gave up trying to compile from source.

Thanks

JEH

OK, I answered my own question, but the answer may be useful to others. I downloaded the Linux version of the LimeWire installer and ran it. Much to my surprise and delight, it installed just fine under Solaris 8 on my Sun Ultra-1E. The only installation error was in the "create link" item near the end of the install. I'm not sure what this is supposed to do, but I just created my own link as a shell script (cd /usr/local/Limewire;sh ./runLime.sh) and it works fine.

JEH

I ran into a major problem after installing Sun's
patch number 108941-56 as part of a general patch update.

This patch specifically breaks the libXm.so.4 library, which is part of Motif. The only cure for this is to backout the patch, or replace the file with an older version, until a new patch is available to fix the problem.

The problem shows up as a Signal 11 fault (Segment Fault) from within the library. Apparently, Java must make calls to this external library for the GUI interfaces (swing?).

The other option is to pester Sun to release a new
patch for 108941. I'm sure they are working on this, because it breaks any Java app that uses Motif calls.

But Sun does not keep old patches around for download, so you could be up the creek unless you can back the patch out, or have an older version sitting on disk somewhere.

Regards,
Rockkeys