Limewire does not start

[Louis Brook]

On 27/08/05, Charles Yao <yaocharlesc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks
> 
> On 8/27/05, Seth Hasani <sepheebear at gmail.com> wrote:
> > <quote who="Charles Yao" on Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:38:20AM EDT>
> >
> > > I tried it and it simply said :
> > >
> > > No alternatives for java.
> >
> > Well it was worth a shot. What's the error message exactly when you run
> > runLime.sh from a shell?
> >
> > > > Im on hoary, do you think there is a difference?
> >
> > On Hoary Limewire just worked IIRC. The only tweak I had to do was in
> > running the script runLime.sh. Apparently you had to be inside the directory
> > when you ran it in order for it to run correctly. So to execute it from the
> > Gnome menubar I used the command "cd ~/opt/LimeWire/;~/opt/LimeWire/runLime.sh"
> >
> > I just d/l'ed LW 4.9 from their site and it ran fine for me with no problems
> > under Breezy. Sorry, no more Hoary to test.
> >
> > Seth
> >
> > > > > > Hi I installed limewire following this tip from the Ubuntu How to pages:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://ubuntuguide.org/#azureus
> > > > > >
> > > > > > everything seemed fine but when i try to launch Limewire it does not.
> > > > >
> > > > >         `sudo update-alternatives --config java`
> > > > >
> >
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If that doesn't solve your problem, I had problems with LimeWire not
launching simply due to my path variable not specifying where Java
was. Run the shell script within a terminal and it'll tell you why it
has died.

Louis