LimeWire Help Needed

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superscienceguy
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LimeWire Help Needed

#1 Post by superscienceguy »

I downloaded LimeWire and I extracted it, but I can't get it to run as the readme file says. It says JRE must be in the path. I'm not sure how to set the path. I should get help with that for sure. Also, if someone knows the trick to getting LimeWire to run. I have puppy 2.13 and downloaded the LimeWireOther.zip file.
Any help is appreciated. If there is a program that works on Linux better than LimeWire, I would appreciate that information. I couldn't find a download for Morpheus for Linux.

GuestToo
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#2 Post by GuestToo »

you have to have Java installed ... you have to have the Java bin dir in the PATH ... if the Java bin dir is in the PATH, you can type java and it will print the help for the java options, like this:

# java
Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
(to execute a class)
or java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...]
(to execute a jar file)
etc etc etc

if java is not in the PATH, it will print something like this:

# java
sh: java: command not found

if the java directory is called jre and is installed on, for example, /mnt/hda15, you can set the PATH variable by putting these lines in /etc/profile.local:

export JAVA_HOME=/mnt/hda15/jre
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

then reboot

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