ok i have properly installed the latest java VM, i have tested it in mozilla it works perfectly, but when i run LimeWireLinux.bin in terminal i get this error message:
it is there and working so anyone know why it isnt installing?

The problem is that the Limewire installer does not know where to find your java installation. The way to fix this is to find where you installed java and to add it to the PATH environment variable.

If you installed java using the .rpm from an official Sun website, it is most likely in "/usr/java/". Open a terminal and type

cd /usr/java
ls

You should see a directory named "j2re1.4.2_04" or something similar. Then, in order to let the Limewire installer know that java is installed there type the following:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin

(replace the 1.4.2_04 numbers with whatever the name of the directory you found above is). To verify the above worked, type

java -version

and you should see a response from java which tells you that you're running version 1.4.2

Once you do this, try running the installer from the same terminal by going to the directory where you downloaded it and typing

sh LimeWireLinux.bin

and that will get you going.

ok when i do that i get this error message:

I just installed LimeWire on my PC running Mandrake Linux adn originally got the same error message:

"quote:No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH
environment variable. You must install a VM prior to
running this program."

following Zab's advice seemed to work for me - thanx - so it may be that the filepath you entered for Java was incorrect. Check where you installed it and try again.

Hmm,

The advice worked all the way up to the point of checking the version of the JVM.... but then I realized that when I did the export PATH command... I accidentally typed..

export PATH=SPATH

instead of using the $

Heh.. oops, how do I fix this? Thanks

you can't really restore the value of the PATH variable to what it was before. Just close the terminal window and open a new one, the PATH variable will have the original value.

I don't know if that would have worked or not (I'm assuming it probably would have..) but right before checking here again, I hit up a friend on IRC and he said that (most of the time) typing..

. /etc/profile

will do the trick.. and it worked after that, but I had also opened a new terminal window.. so who knows :-P Thanks for the help though, and the quick reply

Thanks zab, I was having the same problem, tthey should make this post a sticky!