LimeWire for Ubuntu

[Gary Jarrel]

On 7/21/05, rooney88 <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

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> java -version)...however, i believe the file does not exist anymore and
> i have real problems trying to get java to work...i went to the java
> website and downloaded the linux java installation file
> (jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin). However, how do i go abt install ing the
> file?

I don't think you'll be able to install this file as is via apt,
however it's an executable file, created by sun and it should be able
to do the intallation for you, if you simply execute
./jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin (in the dir where you've downloaded it),
may need to pre-pend an sudo command before it, if you want to install
it into a system directory, i.e. /usr/local/java

I've also installed limewire manually, rather than via apt, into my
home directory, as I didn't feel the need to install it into /usr or
the likes. AFAIK you can download the tar.gz file from the limewire
site, extract it, and then run it.

you may also need to set the JAVA_HOME system variable to point to the
directory where you've installed java, i.e.
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jre-1.5.0, you should be able to set this in
you .bashrc file so that it's exported every time the system starts.
One of the entries in my ~/.bashrc file is:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/j2sdk1.4.2_06

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