limewire

Felix Jodoin yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Feb 19 21:04:01 2004


apt-get install j2re
Try this, it worked for me and someone else who I recommended it too...
-AliasN
Sorry if it's useless or somehow redundant.

On 19-Feb-04, at 3:53 PM, Simon Slaytor wrote:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> I'm suffering from the same problem. However whilst I haven't tracked
> down a fix I have narrowed down the cause of the problem, which doesn't
> lie with LimeWire. Instead the problem appears to be with Blackdown 
> Java
> (I've installed the JRE not the JDK). I discovered this when I ran the
> JVM configuration page in Mozilla, the app worked but no mouse input
> only keyboard.
>
> This isn't the first problem I've had with Blackdown, previously on an
> old PM7500 upgraded with a G4 450 card, running YDL 3.01 and with
> Blackdown / Limewire, the mouse would work but LimeWire simply wouldn't
> connect the the gnutella network.
>
> I'm now running Gentoo 1.4 on a Dual G4 Gigabit ethernet and I have no
> mouse in Java based apps like Limewire.
>
> Not sure how this helps but it might point someone who actually knows
> what they are doing in the right direction.
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
>
> P.S. I still use the 7500 running YDL so no flames for the Gentoo
> please, I just wanted a more update install than YDL gives me. Plus I
> love the FreeBSD ports collection as a resource and Gentoo's Portarge 
> is
> a reasonable facsimile and it runs on PPC!
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:57, Stefan Bruda wrote:
>> At 09:00 -0800 on 2004-2-19 bruno wrote:
>>>
>>> i started up limewire for the first time, and it's
>>> going through some configuration screens; again, no
>>> mouse alive, but this time the keyboard seems to be
>>> dead too; i tried every key, but no luck)
>>
>> Maybe not the answer you would expect or prefer, but still: Last time
>> I tried to use Limewire I found it unyielding and full of bugs.  I
>> moved eventually to gtk-gnutella
>> (http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/) and never looked back.  Give it
>> a try before wasting time and aggravation with Limewire.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Stefan
>
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