I am running Mandrake 8, and I'm having problems getting Lime Wire to run. I installed the JRE correctly and I am getting the following Error messages.

the command 'sh runlime.sh' returns the following:

': not a valid identifier_PREEMPTCLOSE
Couldn't find or load essential class `java/lang/Object' java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError java/lang/Object
runlime.sh: line 11: 15116 Aborted (core dumped) java -classpath . RunLime


'java -cp . RunLime' and 'java -cp .:LimeWire.jar:collections.jar com.limegrou p.gnutella.gui.Main' both return the following:

Internal error: caught an unexpected exception.
Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation.
java/lang/ClassNotFoundException: /:LimeWire/jar:collections/jar
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:native)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:52)
Aborted (core dumped)

Any Ideas?

Try
/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/java -cp . RunLime

If that works you can edit LimeWire/runlim.sh and change the line that says:
java -classpath . RunLime
to the above and use 'sh runlime.sh'

At least this worked for me on Mandrake 8, i was having the same problems.

You might also need do this first:
'export J2SE_PREEMPTCLOSE=1'