Lime Wire and Java Runtime

[SPB]

Ok, I need some help installing Lime Wire. I got the jre installed but when I try to install LimeWire it says that i have to have Java Virtual Machine installed and that it cant be found on "YOUR" path. This is a dependencies error. I don't get it man. The JRE is there but Lime Wire won't see it or something. Is it possible to uninstall JRE 1.3.1_01. I think that there is (maybe) a problem with the JRE because when I try to use it as my java for Konqueror it sometimes loads a java app. on the web and sometimes doesn't. I set it to show the Java console when java is requested and it says that ther is no https support. So, any help is EMENSELY appreciated. If there is any further info needed just ask :) THANX

[scanez]

The default jre installation puts the jre directory in a non-standard place, usually /usr/java/jre1.3.1 I think (well, the default jdk is usually /usr/java/jdk1.3.1 so that is what I base this on), but anyway, either add that directory to your path or make some simlinks to the java executable in /usr/bin

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/java /usr/bin/java

That should work
SC

[SPB]

Ok, I created teh symbolic link and started the install and this time it tells me "error while loading shared libraries: libhpi.so: cannot open shared object files: no such file or directory". So what next? I really really want to get this up and running. I stumbled apon realizing that my sound was actually working and would love to use it and fill up my hard drive :). I tried knapster and its working but has no option for me to connect to the server so obviously that not going to cut it. Is this a permissions thing. Should I try redownloading the LWL.bin again as root? I don't know, thats why the fourm is here right. Thank you so much :) The sim link thing seems to have averted one of the problems at least :)

[scanez]

First just for reference, what distro are you using?

Second, libhpi.so should have come as part of the jre. Check the directories

/path_to_your_jre/jre/lib/i386/green_threads and

/path_to_your_jre/jre/lib/i386/native_threads

to make sure libhpi.so is in them. When you've found out whether or not it is there, come back for more help.

SC

[SPB]

Already checked them and they are there, both of them. I created a symbolic link for one just to see what would happen and the same thing does of course. So where to from here capin'?

EDIT: Its mandrake 8.1, almost forgot :)

[ 17 October 2001: Message edited by: SPB ]

[scanez]

Hmmm, maybe try running

ldconfig /path_to_your_jre/jre/lib/i386/green_threads /path_to_your_jre/jre/lib/i386/native_threads

as root. That will create simlinks to the libs in these directorys. I don't know, it may help. Unfortunately I can't recreate your error on my Debian box but I will keep trying.

SC

[SPB]

:)
Well, in the end when you solve what seems to be a major problem you always think it was so simple and you can't beleive you didn't try that etc. etc.. Well this was one of those instances. I'm lovin it here in Linux land :)

How did I fix it? Ohhh, it was simple really. Just had to delete the directories for the jre and then uninstall the package using the package handler. After that it was just a matter of reinstalling the jre and then Limewire installed perfectly. Life is good :) I may even boot windows off my machine, maybe, just maybe. Gota learn the ftp stuff first and make sure the burning program will work for me. Is cd-toaster any good? Thanx for the help scanez. You probably don't worry about this to much but I rated you with the highest mark, 5 i think it was. Well, I'll be back as soon as I have another catastrophic failure :)

[scanez]

Anytime man. That's what we're here for :)

SC