[newbie] LimeWire

[Ron St-Pierre]

Bryan wrote:

>I'd like to install LimeWire for Linux but when I try I get this
>response, 
>
>"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".
>
>I checked with the Sun website and apparently I have java installed. How
>do I modify my PATH environment variable?
>
>I am using Mandrake 9.2.
>
>Any comments on LimeWire in general?
>
>Bryan
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Ok, you set your path to the directory which contains the executable:

 Did that with this response:

 [bryan@d206-116-251-229 bryan]$ echo $PATH
 /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_01/bin:/home/bryan/bin
 [bryan@d206-116-251-229 bryan]$

 Is this the java VM executable {jre-1.4.2_01}?
Yes, it's in the bin directory.

You should also set and export your java home (you can do this in your .bashrc or .bash_profile files):
 JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_01
 export JAVA_HOME
A lot of java apps are looking for this variable (note that you don't include the bin directory here).

Hope that helps.

Ron