OK, I managed to get through all the Java VM hooplah. I tried installing LimeWire again, and it detected the Java VM, but then I got a bunch of errors similar to this:

dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Launching installer...

rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Anyone else come across this problem?

I have _exactly_ the same problem. I also use SuSE 8.1 and downloaded LimeWire 2.6. Hope somebody has an idea of what it is about. Maybe a symlink somewhere...
Tony

Cool I have the same problems as you guys!!! I hope somebody can help us pretty soon.

See ya

darktemplaaa

I had a look at the install script. If you do "export LAX_DEBUG=true" and run the install script again, you'll see a lot of interesting info. I noticed that many of the commands that set different variables don't work - they leave the variables empty.

The install script creates a new subdirectory in /tmp every time it runs and tries to do its stuff there. I think the permissions here are wrong and that's why the commands in the script fail. WIll look tonite if I can find the place in the install script where the subdirectory is created and give it global write permissions. As it is now, only the user has write permissions.
Tony

He, he... until somebody finds the reason you can just do the following::
1: Download LimeWire 2.7.3 Beta (Linux tgz file) from http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/download_beta.
2. Do "tar xzvf LimeWireLinux.tgz"
3. To start LimeWire do: sh ./runLime.sh

That's all, now you have LimeWire 2.7.3 running with SuSE 8.1. Or at least Works For Me (tm)
Tony

Just saw that official 2.7 is out now. You can download the tgz-file from http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/download_other. Then you just do what I wrote in my previous post. Works fine with SuSE 8.1.
Tony

Works for me too!

Thank You

Installed and it works fine.
But I want to start LW from the desktop and not from the console, anyone knows a way how to make a shortcut on the desktop? If I put for example "/home/xyz/LimeWire/runLime.sh", it wont work.
Thx for any infos