You need to download limewire to your home folder-not the desk top or it will not register when you go to use alien do this by going to the toolbar in firefox
edit>preferences>save all files to this folder>browse>your home folder...easy...now go through the above mentioned steps and it should work like a breeze

I'm a linux idiot and I got it to run with these instructions thanx! here's some tips to make life easier.............

-Make sure you add java runtime which is in add applications.

-save file LimeWireLinux.rpm under HOME folder

-step 3 LimeWireLinux.rpm is case sensitive

-and double check the version of limewire. if you don't know, after step 3, do a file search for limewire and you should have a file like limewire-free_4.12.3-1_i386.deb

I had to do this to get limewire working.


Selecting the default Java version

In Ubuntu 6.06 or 5.10, if you want to use Sun's Java instead of the open source GIJ (GNU Java bytecode interpreter) you need to set it as default. To list installed JVMs:

update-java-alternatives -l

To select, for example, Sun's JVM as provided in Ubuntu 6.06, run:

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.5.0-sun

You should also edit /etc/jvm and move /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun to the top of JVMs offered.

Is all this necessary on SUSE 10.1 as well?

i have done all 4 steps and i still can't get limewire to work, when i clk it in menu nothing happens, and when i try to start it in terminal i get the error message "runLime.sh: 44: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "}")" .

i'm new to linux and i would really appreciate all the help i can get

To fix:
./runLime.sh.org: 44: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "}")

edit the file: /usr/bin/limewire

and change the line:
sh runLime.sh
to:
bash runLime.sh

-Chris

Thanks soooo much, Chris! I had been trying to figure this out for hours, and I finally ran across your post. Happy New Year!

Power 2 Da Penguin,
Milton

When I tried to run the LimeWire.jar file this is the error message that comes up:


LimeWire version 4.12.6
Java version 1.5.0_08 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Linux v. 2.6.17-10-generic on i386
Free/total memory: 887504/2031616

com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader$StartupFailed Exception: invalid themes.jar
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.sanityCheck(G UILoader.java:275)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.load(GUILoade r.java:48)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Native MethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:44)

STARTUP ERROR!

PLEASE HELP!....

Thanks

After paying attention to your instruction it works just fine.

Thanks alot,

Hi,
I have Linux Debian 2.6.18-4-amd64, I have download sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update11_amd64.deb to make working with LimeWire. I have also installed alien to get a .deb file for debian, but while start the process:
debian:/tmp# alien --to-deb LimeWireLinux.rpm
I get this:
Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/limewire-free
dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for libdl.so.2
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libdl (soname 2, path libdl.so.2, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for librt.so.1
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library librt (soname 1, path librt.so.1, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for libpthread.so.0
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libpthread (soname 0, path libpthread.so.0, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for libXt.so.6
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libXt (soname 6, path libXt.so.6, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for libX11.so.6
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libX11 (soname 6, path libX11.so.6, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for libc.so.6
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libc (soname 6, path libc.so.6, dependency field Depends)
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture amd64 does not appear in package's list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: LimeWire-free-4.12.11: No such file or directory

Is limewire unable to work properly with Linux on amd64? or what is going on? I don't understand what I can do to solve it.

Thank

lim