Cannot install LimeWire on Mandrake 8.0
 

I have Mandrake 8.0, and when I try to run the runlime.sh file in the directory I installed to - /home/myname/LimeWire, I get the line runlime.sh: java: command not found. Did I install the Java wrong?? I put Java in both /usr/local and /usr/java. I am a Linux newbie, so any help I could get would be appreciated.

You need to add the java command to your path. I am not good at explaing this, but it has something with modifying your startup bash files to include java as a terminal command. I'll see if I can find a good link for this.

These might be of interest. The first one is another thread from these message boards, and another one is the Link Sherrie so gracefully provided. Hope this helps! :-)

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=2904

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Path-3.html

It's helped....kinda
 

Yeah, I can run Limewire with the long java script fro mthe post thread, put I'm green I don't really understand how to set the path for Java. I know I'm really dumb!! Any help greatly appreciated.

I had the same problems, here's how I got mine to work.
 

I had no trouble changing my $PATH variable to include the java directory, it's as easy as issuing the following command:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/

I was however unable to EXPORT my $PATH variable (meaning, whenever I closed the terminal/rebooted/etc my $PATH variable would return to it's original state). I also use Mandrake (but i'm using version 8.1 beta 2) and I think it's a bug or something. Anyways, I got it to work by creating a symbolic link to java in one of the directories listed in the $PATH variable. How did I do that? Well, since I am a Linux newbie, I actually had a little trouble with it. First i searched for java by using the following command:

whereis java

That would tell me which directory java was installed in (from what I read, I believe java is located in "/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/" for your system). Then I issued the following command:

echo $PATH

That will display all of the directories in the $PATH variable (which are all separated by a colon) Then I picked of those directories and made it the current directory. Then I created the symbolic link by issueing the following command:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/java java

This should work IF
1. /usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/ is the directory where java is located
2. You issued the command while in a directory which is in your $PATH environment variable.

Hope that helps. If you find out how to export an environment variable so that it's value is saved, please let me know.