Okay,
I've tried a bunch of things but, nothing seems to be working. I'm getting the following error message when trying to install LimeWire. I'm running RedHat Linux 7.1....

"No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program."

I've tried some of the other troubleshooting steps listed... First of all, I'm guessing I don't have JRE installed correctly.... Nothing happends when I type "java - version" or just "Java", even in the directory I installed it into. I also installed JDE and still no results.

If anyone can help, it would be GREATLY appriciated. I've used LimeWire since Napster went funny, and I love it. I feel like my computer is pretty much useless without it!!

Ben
BSafin@Mediaone.net

I am having trouble to, I got past your problem though. Grab the jre from here http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/ ....install it. Then edit your /etc/profile you will need this line in there .... PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/bin
make sure that you are exporting PATH too

That should get you past your error.


now this is what I get.....
as root, # sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin
Preparing to install...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/zerog/lax/LAX

I am running redhat 7.1 w/ jre-1.3.1_01.i386.rpm installed

Can someone PLEASE help me, I am doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance

I'm not sure why the installer can't find the classes that are included in the installer. It should work. You could try setting an explicit CLASSPATH to the current directory just before you run the installer:

CLASSPATH=.; export CLASSPATH

Then run the installer:

sh LimeWireLinux.bin

I'm not sure that this will work though. If you can't find another solution you can try an alternative method of installing LimeWire:

http://www.cyberspace.org/~kohl/limewirelinuxhowto.html

Can't add anything in terms of a solution but I can say I am having the same problem. I downloaded from SUN's site and installed the JRE using RPM. Looked OK. Downloaded LimeWire and attempted install but get the '..can't find JVM' message that so many others seem to be having. I am a newbie and I can say that I have not been messing around with 'things' so my system is pretty much standard. I did install Opera without problem, outside of that the system is vanilla. This has got to be something fundamental, the JRE install and the LimeWIre install doc do not help with this problem as far as I can determine....so far. I will keep at it but is it always this difficult in Linux?

I'm having the same freaking problems....I don't know what to do. If you figure it out, drop me a line at mm264@bard.edu

It works!!!! I used the "alternate method" discribed in the link posted above...... it didn't work at first but, I was getting java: command not found ....... does anyone know how to fix this, I have it installed, and I can run it if I type the absolute path (ie. /usr/java/jreXXX/bin/java ) so I just hard coded that line into the runlime.sh script....... I am fairly new to linux though so can someone tell me how to get the java command to work w/o the absolute path..... but anyway it works... I hope this helps someone out and thanks twist

The system checks the PATH environment variable to find executables to execute. So when you type 'java' at the command prompt it looks in all the directories listed in the PATH variable, searching for the java command. If you open the file .bash_profile in your home directory, you'll see there's a line in there that starts with PATH= (at least, that's where it is on RedHat, it may be in .bashrc in other distros). You need to add the directory where java is (usr/java/jreXXX/bin/) onto the end of this list.

Here's what mine looks like:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin

Yours needs to be slightly different for your system ie perhaps something like jre1.3.1 instead of jdk1.3.1. It depends on where extactly java is installed.