I've got a problem during installation with Limewire on Mandrake 8.2
jre installed and on my path

i launch "sh Limewire.bin" and i've got java errors and the installation abort. Is it a known problem or only mine?

I had some java errors as well when trying:

sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin

I installed jre1.3.1_02 (downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/)
as instructed on the limewire.com download page. I then ran the command:
/usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin/java LimeWireLinux.bin (one line) and got a nice little GUI taking me through the install process. It said that the install was successful, however, when I looked at the install log, it said nothing was installed.
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ACtually, if you edit your path statement to include the path to the java directory (mine is /usr/java/jre<version>/bin) you can sh LimeWireLinux with no problem.

Put
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre<version>/bin/
in your .bashrc file... viola!

I put my path statement into my .bash_profile and still it crashes for me. I downloaded blackdown j2sdk1.3.1;
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I issue the command:

su -c "./LimeWireLinux.bin"
Password:
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Program spits:

Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

Launching installer...

Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx50331648'.
Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'.
Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Stack Trace:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGcf
at ZeroGcj.<init>(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86d3d74)
at ZeroGb3.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86cd54b)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8662531)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.b(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86471c1)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8577a61)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:native )
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82a89d6)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x825cbcb)

I tried installing with my path pointing to /usr/java/jre/bin and /usr/java/bin without any success.

I will take it to another level. I am using Mandrake 8.2 with Java blackdown version:

java version "1.3.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.3.1-02b-FCS)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1_02b-FCS, mixed mode)

I put where I downloaded my j2sdk1.3.1-02b-FCS:

/usr/lib/j2sdk1.3.1

into my PATH in my .bash_profile:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.3.1
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

After doing that, I remove kaffe from my system but I have a dependency problem with my wizard packages. I do this command to keep that program around:

rpm -e kaffe --nodeps

This removes all instances of kaffe binaries from /usr/bin.

I next create soft links to the /usr/bin directory but blackdown has most of all of it's java commands (ie java, javac, etc) as symbolic links. Some people´s configuration will not allow that many symlinks.
the symlinks point to a "hidden" file called .java_wrapper. So I link this to my /usrbin directory like so:

ln -s /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3.1/bin/.java_wrapper /usr/bin/java

After doing that, I execute the LImeWireLinux.bin installer:

./LimeWireLinux.bin

Installation works. Program installed, running, and functional.