Finally got this answer from someone in a Mandrake news group:

I used method #2

First, make sure you have followed the instructions in the error
message. You need to have a valid archive for the following to work.

Make sure that your Linux system has a utility called uncompress
installed. This should appear in your /usr/bin directory. If it is not
installed you can try one of two things:

1) Install the required package from your Linux media that contains
uncompress.
2) Create a link from gunzip and call it uncompress in the /usr/bin
directory. gunzip will work to uncompress *.Z files and the install
should complete successfully.

Finally, no more gtk_gnutella...!

HTH
geo!

I had the same problem and #2 solution worked for me as well. Has anyone told limewire?

I got the same problem, I found in the script itself that the compress and uncompress programs were used (why doesn't Mandrake 8.0 install them by default ???).
But the REAL problem it that when I now start the install, I get :

Preparing to install...
SIGSEGV received at bfffdf58 in /tmp/install.dir.5778/Linux/resource/jre/lib/linux/native_threads/libjava.so.
Processing terminated
Writing stack trace to javacore6850.txt ... ./LimeWireLinux.bin: line 1: 6850 Segmentation fault /tmp/install.dir.5778/Linux/resource/jre/bin/jre -Djava.compiler= -noverify -cp "::/tmp/install.dir.5778/InstallerData:/tmp/install.dir.5778/InstallerData/installer.zip" com.zerog.lax.LAX "/tmp/install.dir.5778/temp.lax" /tmp/env.properties.5778

Wassup ??

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Yves Dessertine
yves.d@hrnet.fr

I made the link and i still cant install, can someone help me out??

the same here with LimeWireLinux (the Java version install correctly but the configuration window is unresizable and unusable) same error:
SIGSEGV received at bffff1fc in /tmp/install.dir.8375/Linux/resource/jre/lib/linux/native_threads/libjava.so. Processing terminated
Writing stack trace to javacore9273.txt ... OK
./download/LimeWireLinux.bin: line 1: 9273 Violación de segmento /tmp/install.dir.8375/Linux/resource/jre/bin/jre -Djava.compiler= -noverify -cp "::/tmp/install.dir.8375/InstallerData:/tmp/install.dir.8375/InstallerData/installer.zip" com.zerog.lax.LAX "/tmp/install.dir.8375/temp.lax" /tmp/env.properties.8375

I have the same problem, except that my Mandrake 8 machine crahses so badly that I have to do a hard reset.

Please help. It worked with Mandrake 7.2.

Olaf

Same thing happened for me on mandrake 8 but here is how you can get it working.

go to java.sun.com and install the java jre if you don't already have it.

download LimeWireOther.zip

type this "java -classpath LimeWireOther.zip install"

Wherever you told it to install LimeWire you can just do a "./LimeWire" and it works fine.

@me
The installation of LimeWireOther.zip pursuant to your tip has been successful. By the way, how do I set a link to "java" so that I can execute "java" not only within the jre/bin directory?

Now comes the real problem. The program runs ok, but I cannot resize the options window. Due to this bug? I cannot set any preferences.

Please help...

Olaf

wah!

so, I install sun's JRE 1.3.1

I then d/l LimeWireOther.zip

I then "java -classpath LimeWireOther.zip install"

I get :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: install


system : Pent III 800Mhz , Mandrake 8 , Linux kernel 2.4.5 , and above JRE

heeeeeeeeelp!

rgds.

Kev.