How to install LimeWire in FC3

Disclaimer: Do it at your own risk. Everything started with a thread I read at another forum. I have used amule without any problems and installation was via yum. Code: yum install amule Very nice peer 2 peer but a little slow. I also tried GTK-Gnutella which I also installed via yum. Code: yum install gtk-gnutella . I ran into trouble when trying to install LimeWire for linux. But with the help from tchung from www.fedoranews.org. I was able to install LimeWire. This was the error I got at terminal. Quote: [root@myfc3 imdeemvp]# chmod +x LimeWireLinux.bin [root@myfc3 imdeemvp]# sh LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `tail --help' for more information. LimeWireLinux.bin: line 326: [: `)' expected, found -z WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required and/or available could not be determined. The installation will be attempted anyway. Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. TChung suggested doing this:   Quote: I have another suggestion. You can create a file in /etc/profile.d/java.sh with following content: (Assuming you have j2re 1.4.2_06 rpm package from sun website) #!/bin/bash # Init Script for j2re 1.4.2_06 # Drop this script in /etc/profile.d JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export JAVA_HOME PATH Now log out and log back in. Then type "echo $PATH" from a terminal to see the order of executables. This way, you can give a priority to j2re instead of libgcj. Thomas if you follow this suggestion step by step you will be able to install LimeWire. Open terminal and type: Code: sh LimeWireLinux.bin and you will get and intallation prompt: Quote: [imdeemvp@myfc3 FC3]$ sh LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `tail --help' for more information. LimeWireLinux.bin: line 326: [: `)' expected, found -z WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required and/or available could not be determined. The installation will be attempted anyway. Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... Launching installer... Warning: Cannot convert string "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct 1. Click OK on first option. 2. Click NEXT on the limewire installer. 3. And continue to click NEXT until you get to installation and click on INSTALL if you are ok with the path of your folders. If not change the path yourselt. I suggest let limewire do it for you. 4. Click on DONE and enjoy. 5. Get your limewire icon from www.kde-look.org and create your launcher and for command use runLimeWire The purpose of this was to do a benchmark with all three p2p's and in 1st place was LimeWire, 2nd GTK-Gnutella and 3rd was for amule. See screenshots of installation: screenshot 1 screenshot 2 screenshot 3 screenshot 4 screenshot 5