LW 1.7 installation on Mandrake 8.0

Whenever I try to install LW 1.7 I get a bunch of errors like at ZeroGR.<init>([DashoPro-V1.2-120198]:line unknown, pc0x887f982)

I tried to install by sh LimeWireLinux.bin in the same directory the file is in. I tried as root and as a normal user. I have Sun's JRE 1.3.1_01 installed. Which Star Office and MoneyDance use.

Any ideas?

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Ideally you'd want the installer to work I guess. I'm not sure what it's problem is. However, since you already have JRE 1.3.1 installed there's an alternative installation method. I used this method to install 1.7 on my RedHat 7.1 system with the Java 1.3.1 SDK.

1. Go to the LimeWire download page (at http://www.limewire.com) and download the Solaris package *without* the installer included. It's 621kb and for some reason is called LimeWireLinux.tgz.

2. Extract the LimeWire files from the archive with this command: tar -zxvf LimeWireLinux.tgz


That's it. A directory called LimeWire is created in the same directory as LimeWireLinux.tgz and it contains LimeWire's classes and the runlime.sh script. Assuming your java installation is okay, you can now change to the new LimeWire directory and run LimeWire with ./runlime.sh

[ Update: I just noticed that LimeWireLinux.tgz is actually around 662 KB in size. The download page claims it's 621 KB. :-) ]

Thanks, that did the trick! I was wondering where the "other" version of LimeWire for Linux was at.

LimeWire is now up and running. Many thanks again!!

Yes, thanks for the suggestion. I just could not get the stupid installer program to work on my Linux machine. Why don't they just make the tgz file more obvious? Most Linux users can follow a simple set of instructions for untarring a tgz file.

This worked ok on my RedHat 7.1 machine, but one problem...the Solaris version is not 1.7. It's still 1.6d. So back to square one for me, anyone make any progress on getting the installer to work?

-J

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Where did you download it from? As far as I can tell all the Solaris .tgz files on the LimeWire download page (at http://www.limewire.com) are 1.7. I wasn't clear enough. Sorry. :-)

I've edited my original post so that it specifies the LimeWire homepage.