Ask Stief, he might know your problem.

LW 4.16 runs fine on both my G4 with Tiger & Leopard intel. LW 5 runs on a different OSX installation on my intel.

You could always try LW 4.16 since I was unable to run 4.18, however was able to install it.

No idea why 4.18.8 won't install, unless the receipt in the hard drive's Library (not the Home folder's Library) wasn't deleted.

Still, delete the old installer(s) and download a fresh one from Lime Wire » Official Website & Free Download, BitTorrent «

I had the same problem.

When I tried to run LW 4.16, I got a message from the limewire site to upgrade and that the upgrade was for Tiger or Leopard, but no mention of needing Intel hardware.

I installed it only to have it tell me that it needed Java 1.6. So I removed it and tried to run my old LW 4.16, but then it said it would not run without Java 1.6. But java 1.6 is only for Leopard.

So I trashed every file I could find manually or by Searchlight search that contained Limewire.

Then I downloaded LW 4.18.8 from the older versions page on LW site.

But when I went to install it, it first said that I had a new version when I selected the location to install and it would install the older version over it. I said OK and then tried to do the install, but then it said there was nothing to install and would not go further.

But thanks to LordOfTheRings, I finally found the LW package in the Receipts folder of my Library folder and trashed that along with everything else related to LW. That did the trick after struggling with this all afternoon and finally finding this forum and this topic.

Thanks again

I did contact LW & they have quickly changed the download name for OSX specifying 'Leopard - Intel' now. (They haven't yet done this for Pro yet.)

One picture I found helpful...


From: Can't launch LW: Bouncing in Dock

Hello. I too am experiencing the same problem, except when I went to Library/receipts, I found nothing Limewire related.

Is there anything else I can do? I've deleted everything Limewire related and it still says "there is nothing to download".

I've tried restarting my computer and stuff but nothing works.

The file is called install limewire.pkg, not limewire. Arrange Receipts folder in 'List' mode & look under i. The folder is in OSX -> Library, not your account folder. So you're trying to install LW 4?

Lord, Had the same problem as the others. Your solution solved it. THANKS.
One only has to wonder though about the IDIOT webmasters at limewire. You contacted them 3 months ago, and STILL going to Limewire it says "Download for OSX" I did and they wasted an hour of my time dicking around with there bad code. 1. Website not specific. 2. Download does not check OS Version 3. Install does not check OS Version 4. Error messages talks about Java 1.6 and not OS Version. 5. NO uninstall. 6. After realizing wrong version, download and install 7. Installer says "Nothing to Install" 8. No Tech support. 9 Forced to register to get answer. and #10The Limewire CREW needs to get there heads out of the programming books and hire some actual USERS. Idiots. (But THANK YOU LORD!!!!)

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Glad to hear you sorted your problem out.

I have the same problem as the above and have deleted all traces of limewire. I CANT FIND this magic receipt everyone is talking about. my receipts are already in alphabetical order and i have check 1000 times. I dont have limewire installed on bootcamp or another user and I have up to date java.

PLEASE help. Frostwire etc. are so much slower.