Re: LimeWire and Fedora

From: Rick (rick_at_none.com)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:09:58 GMT

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:06:57 +1000, Nicolae Fieraru wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am running Fedora Core 1 and yesterday I installed LimeWire (after I
> previously I installed Java). I did some tests with limewire, and I
> downloaded some songs and everything worked fine. Meantime I forgot how
> did I launch the program (or maybe it start itself after the installation)
>
> Today I tried to start LimeWire again, with all the commands I could think
> of (limewire, LimeWire, Lime-Wire, lime-wire, with and without dots in
> front of them) and none of them work.
> I tried to figure out with the command "rpm -q Lime* " I get messages
> like: package LimeWire is not installed
>
> How it is possible to have the system reporting the program hasn't been
> installed, after I've been able to run it?
>
> I finally managed to run the program again by going into LimeWire folder
> and launching ./LimeWire. But I want to add a shortcut to the desktop or
> better, to the main menu (under Internet Applications). Can I do that?
>
> I noticed that sometimes install packages and programs have different
> names. How should I check if I have this program installed? Is it possible
> to run limewire without actually installing it?
>
> What is even more curious, is that I tried to search for the application
> using *Lime* and LimeWire in the base directory (/)and it only comes up
> with Bluecurve-Lime. I am logged in as a user. Why doesn't find the folder
> "LimeWire"?
>
>
> Regards,
> Nicolae

You should have a script in your Home directory named runLimeWire. Set up
a shortcut with that as the command. 

-- 
Rick

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