hiya all, i am what u might consider a totally utter linux newbie, i am running mandrake 9.0 and gnome. I have only been using linux for 2 days and i decieded i wanted to download a p2p sharing program like kazaa or direct connect.

I downloaded the limewirelinux.bin file from download.com into my home directory. This is the point where i am stuck lol. I need to know what to do next, as clicking on the file only opens the script in a text program.

please help...

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Thanks

ok i installed java 'j2re-1_4_1'

now i read somewhere about a bashrc file or something, i have to edit to make it know where the java is installed, then limewire will run?

pls help me, i have installed java, just need info on how about to edit this file..

thanks

ok, so now java should be installed in "/usr/java/j2re1.4.1" I think... you can check by typing this...

find / -name java 2>/dev/null

it should return the full path of the java binary.
Once you know where java is installed, in a terminal type "gedit ./.bashrc &" and (even if it's a new file) add one line that says

PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.1/bin

or whatever the directory is that java is in. save it, close it, and close the terminal. Open a NEW terminal (so that .bashrc gets executed) and type "java". if you get the java options stuff you're doing good. If not play with the path you added to .bashrc until it works.

Once you can just type "java" to execute java, in the terminal just type "./limewirelinux.bin" and it should run. If you get "permission denied" type "chmod 755 ./limewirelinux.bin" and try again.

after that comes the tricky part. you have to run the app, but you have to make sure you get the CLASSPATH right, which is where java looks for packages.

I'm assuming you installed limewire to /home/user/limewire.

type "cd ~user/limewire"
type "ls -1 core/lib/*.jar gui/lib/*.jar | cat > ./libs.txt"

now you have a list of all the libraries limewire will need to run in libs.txt

For each of them (you could write SH or perl to do this) you want to add them to the classpath with

CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/user/limewire/[next_one]

once you have them all done type "export CLASSPATH"

then type "echo $CLASSPATH | cat > ./cp.txt", and then "gedit ./cp.txt & gedit ~/.bashrc &", and copy the one line from cp.txt into the .bashrc. After all that's done you should be able to go to /home/user/limewire/gui and type "./run".

Not quite installing kazaa, huh?

Ok, i got to the part where i get the java options etc, but i cannot do this:

./limewirelinx.bin

it says:

[carl@pc-62-30-201-153-cw carl]$ ./limewirelinux.bin
bash: ./limewirelinux.bin: No such file or directory

the file is in my /home/carl folder

any ideas? please

i also tried this:


[carl@pc-62-30-201-153-cw carl]$ ./limewirelinux.bin
bash: ./limewirelinux.bin: No such file or directory

ok ignore that posted, gay copy and paste didnt work :/


[carl@pc-62-30-201-153-cw carl]$ chmod 755 ./limewirelinux.bin
chmod: failed to get attributes of `./limewirelinux.bin': No such file or directory
[carl@pc-62-30-201-153-cw carl]$ chmod 755 ./home/carl/limewirelinux.bin
chmod: failed to get attributes of `./home/carl/limewirelinux.bin': No such file or directory

ok forget all the above now lol, i put the file LimeWireLinux.bin in a folder called limewire then in terminal types cd limewire, then dir, the ./LimeWireLinux.bin, ran through the installer, installed to a folder called 'LimeWire' (Not limewire)...

now..

type "cd ~Carl/LimeWire" << OK
type "ls -1 core/lib/*.jar gui/lib/*.jar | cat > ./libs.txt" <<FAILED

i got the error:...

[carl@pc-62-30-201-153-cw LimeWire]$ ls -1 core/lib/*.jar | cat > ./libs.txt
ls: core/lib/*.jar: No such file or directory


Please help lol

Noticed i missed out a section still no good though :


[carl@pc-62-30-201-153-cw LimeWire]$ ls -1 core/lib/*.jar gui/lib/*.jar | cat > ./libs.txt
ls: core/lib/*.jar: No such file or directory
ls: gui/lib/*.jar: No such file or directory

anyone on ere alive? please help, want to start downloading and sharing my 100 gb of files