Limewire installation problems
 

Okay, I run the .rpm but it says I need java and this thing called libXss.so.1. So I manage to download and run java but for some reason when i try to install a package with this file in it, it has like a hundred dependencies that I need to download aswell. when I download the other things that also says i need to download more files. Where can I find this libXss.so.1 file by its self or what can i do to make this work?

You need to get an older version of the file, if you can. That way you won't have to do all those updates. You can find just about every rpm you want at RPMFind

Puzzled
 

When you pay for the latest release of LimeWire Pro, you don't expect to then have to hunt for an older release. If LimeWire is a Java/Swing application, then why does it have native dependencies? It should only require a locally installed JVM, yes?

Chris.

libXss.so is from xorg-libs. Do you have X Window System installed at all, installing from command line? Of course limewire depends from X, because GUI needs X.

there are two ways to address this:

a) upgrade to java 1.5 (recommended)
b) install the xorg-deprecated-libs package from your distribution.

Is this Java issue why I receive this message when attempting to install to Fedora Core 3 with SELinux ??

Starting LimeWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
Suitable java version found [java = 1.4.2]
Configuring environment...
Loading LimeWire:
Warning: -jar not understood. Ignoring.
Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: LimeWire.jar
at gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
at _Jv_ThreadRun(java.lang.Thread) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
at _Jv_RunMain(java.lang.Class, byte const, int, byte const, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
at __gcj_personality_v0 (/usr/lib/LimeWire/java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre)
at __libc_start_main (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so)
at _Jv_RegisterClasses (/usr/lib/LimeWire/java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.
2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre)

************************************************** ****************
Something went wrong with LimeWire.
Maybe you're using the wrong version of Java?
(LimeWire is tested against and works best with with Sun's JRE, Java 1.4+)
The version of Java in your PATH is:
java version "1.4.2"
jdkgcj 0.3.1 (http://www.arklinux.org/projects/jdkgcj)
gcj (GCC) 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Fedora uses gcj by default, even if Sun java is installed. We have provided one possible workaround here:

http://gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=25571

Thanks ZAB for your pointer to the work-around. I can bring up Limewire and connect and do the usual upload and download. However, I must log on in the superuser terminal and launch by the following command. Notice the error messages before the new logon (that was a crash for unknown reasons and I did a restart) and the new logon that I did.

Clipped from Terminal:

************************************************** ***************
Something went wrong with LimeWire.
Maybe you're using the wrong version of Java?
(LimeWire is tested against and works best with with Sun's JRE, Java 1.4+)
The version of Java in your PATH is:
java version "1.4.2"
jdkgcj 0.3.1 (http://www.arklinux.org/projects/jdkgcj)
gcj (GCC) 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


[root@localhost dave]# limewire
Starting LimeWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. LimeWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com
Java exec found in /usr/java/jre1.5.0_03/bin/
Suitable java version found [/usr/java/jre1.5.0_03/bin/java = 1.5.0_03]
Configuring environment...
Loading LimeWire:

****************************************

I am thinking that Limewire is not finding Java in the expected place and then searching and finally finding it?

Also, no icon, of course, and when I start from the desktop with a command, I get a new Limewire. I assume from that Limewire is doing one start as root and another as user dave. I am dave and almost never use root and only usually su via the su terminal.

Thanks again .... I am getting very close to ordering the Pro version.

Cheers,

Dave


:)

are you sure you did the last step :
That should give every user in the machine rights to launch limewire.