[newbie] LimeWire

[Ron St-Pierre]

Bryan wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 16:46, Mark McLaughlin wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Bryan
>>
>>In a console window type: echo $PATH   
>>When you press enter the current listing of your PATH variable 
>>will appear, something like; 
>>
>>/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin     would be common.
>>
>>If these are missing from yours, add them via;
>>
>>PATH=[/path/to/executable]   no brackets
>>
>>Try your action again. If it still fails, you need to explicitly 
>>add the directory that the Java VM resides in to this PATH variable. 
>>So locate the Java VM executable app via something like
>>whereis java, or locate java.
>>
>>For instance, run      locate java | grep bin 
>>
>>This should point to the javaVM executable, 
>>which you may add to your PATH.
>>
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>    
>>
>This was the response:
>
>[bryan@d206-116-45-87 bryan]$ echo $PATH
>/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_01/bin:/home/bryan/bin
>
>[bryan@d206-116-45-87 bryan]$ locate java | grep bin
>/usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_01/jre/bin/java
>/usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_01/jre/bin/java_vm
>/usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_01/jre/javaws/javawsbin
>[bryan@d206-116-45-87 bryan]$
>
>Should {/usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_01/jre/bin/java_vm} be added to the path? If
>so, how is this done?
>
Usually you need the /bin directory in your path and the top level java 
directory as your java home.

>
>Thanks,
>Bryan
>
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There are a number of ways to set environment variables, including the 
path. One way is to edit your .bash_profile file in your root directory 
using vim or some other editor (note the first character in the file 
name is a period). Here is a sample .bash_profile:

postgres@asdf:~$ cat .bash_profile
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

     if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
         . ~/.bashrc
     fi

     PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/bin
     PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin
     PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/bin
     PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/scripts

     export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
     export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant

You can create and export whatever environment variable you want and 
then just refer to the variable names to access them (eg: echo $PATH). 
BTW I've never used LimeWire, so I don't know whether or not it's 
explicitly looking for the JAVA_HOME variable. Also be aware that the 
changes you make in your .bash_profile will take effect the next time 
you log in.

Ron