RPMs available for testing
 

Greetings. An RPM for LimeWire 4.4.1 is available for testing at

http://www.limewire.org/LimeWire-free-4.4.1-0.i386.rpm

It is tested to work on Fedora Core 3 and requires that you already have the Java Runtime Environment properly installed. To install LimeWire become root and type:

rpm -i LimeWire-free-4.4.1-0.i386.rpm

If that is successful, you should be able to type "limewire" in your terminal and that will launch limewire. On some systems there will also be an entry somewhere the start menu (On fedora it is in the "Internet" category).

Please give it a try and let us know how you like it.

where is the jre assumed to be located?
 

With the rpm version of the installer, where does it assume the JRE will be located? On my system, I already had the j2sdk installed in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_06 which is where the java rpm installed itself. I included the jre/bin directory in the patch but the LimeWireLinux.rpm is not finding the jre. I keep getting the following message:

jre >= 1.4.1 is needed by LimeWire-pro-4.4.3-0.i386

yeah this is an idiosyncracy on Sun's part. Basically version 1.5.0 claims that it provides both jre and j2re, while versions before that provide only j2re. We'll look into fixing that.

Until then you can just install with --nodeps, assuming java is in your path. To find if that's the case, typing "java -version" should show the proper version.