Limewire: Cannot Install ??

don_pettengill_at_spamgilent.com
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:27:16 +0000 (UTC)

I am having trouble installing Limewire:

================== start ======================
# ./LimeWireLinux.bin
Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

Launching installer...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/zerog/lax/LAX
================== end ======================

Googling gave me a whole pile of notes on "make sure java is installed
and is on your PATH". Yes, and yes:

# which java
/usr/bin/java
# java -version
java version "1.4.2_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_05-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_05-b04, mixed mode)
# ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 23 20:45 /usr/bin/java -> /opt/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin/java
# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11

Inserting 'set -x' in the Limewire install script shows where the problem lies:

.
.
.
+ debugOut '========= Executing JAVA ============================================='
+ echo '========= Executing JAVA ============================================='
+ eval '"/opt/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin/java"' -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xmx100331648 -Xms16777216 com.zerog.lax.LAX
'"/tmp/install.dir.3000/temp.lax"' '"/tmp/env.properties.3000"'
++ /opt/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin/java -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xmx100331648 -Xms16777216 com.zerog.lax.LAX
/tmp/install.dir.3000/temp.lax /tmp/env.properties.3000
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/zerog/lax/LAX
+ exitValue=1
+ debugOut '========= JAVA Finished =============================================='
+ echo '========= JAVA Finished =============================================='
.
.
.

Finally, I am running:

#uname -a
Linux attila 2.6.7-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 8 05:08:04 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Debian testing (sarge).

"I don't do java" so I have no idea (or interest) in hacking it.

Can anyone help? The Limewire web pages are of no use on this problem.
This isn't the first time I've tried to get this installed, but this is
the first serious attempt.

Setting debug shows I have a display error (no gui); however, running

./LimeWireLinux.bin -i CONSOLE

clears that warning, setting me to console mode ... which fails in the
same place with the same error.

Thanks,

Don Pettengill

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