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tba Apprentice
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 8:47 am Post subject: LimeWire |
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ive read others' post about limewire but im afraid i still dont get it. limewire says it requires the java2 runtime enviornment. this is not in my portage list but i downloaded the self extracting .bin (there was no tar), and i emerge j2ee because i hear gentoo can run multiple vms so maybe i can get one up and running.
i get to the steps in gentoo.org/java.html where it asks me to: java-config --list-available-vms, but i cant niether the vm i emerged nor the self-extracting bin i dled are shown!
what have i done wrong? |
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klieber Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 3657 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Just put "java" as a USE variable in your /etc/make.conf file and limewire should be compiled with java support. In fact, limewire should compile with java support regardless -- if it's not, it may be a bug in the ebuild. might file a bug report on bugs.gentoo.org.
Regarding java2 runtime not being in portage; it most certainly is:
Code: | root@M3 kurtl # emerge -s jre
[ Results for search key : jre ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
* dev-java/blackdown-jre
Latest version Available: 1.3.1-r7
Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ]
Homepage: http://www.blackdown.org
Description:
Blackdown Java Runtime Environment 1.3.1
* dev-java/ibm-jre
Latest version Available: 1.3.1-r1
Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ]
Homepage: http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/dklx130/dklx130-p
Description:
IBM JRE 1.3.1
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tba Apprentice
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject: limewire/sun-java |
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i meant specifically sun's java2. if i can use blackdown thats all well and good.
limewire is not in my portage list though. do you know of any gnutella clients that are, and use a gui |
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klieber Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 3657 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: limewire/sun-java |
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tba wrote: | limewire is not in my portage list though. do you know of any gnutella clients that are, and use a gui |
Code: | kurtl@M3 linux # emerge -s gnutella
[ Results for search key : gnutella ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* net-misc/gtk-gnutella
Latest version Available: 0.85
Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ]
Homepage: http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/
Description:
A GTK+ Gnutella client |
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tba Apprentice
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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so -s is a handy switch... duely noted...
when i used mandrake everything was harder than i expected it to be, with gentoo i expect everything to be too hard and it already works very seamlessly. I though, from reading the dl instructions, i HAD to use sun's jre.
while we are on the subject, what vm should i be using? i ask because i read on gentoo.org that blackdown was slower than most, but "free-est." |
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klieber Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 3657 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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tba wrote: | while we are on the subject, what vm should i be using? i ask because i read on gentoo.org that blackdown was slower than most, but "free-est." |
Code: | kurtl@M3 linux # emerge -s "which vm should I be using"
[ Results for search key : which vm should I be using ]
[ Applications found : 0 ] |
Damn -- I have no idea.
--kurt _________________ The problem with political jokes is that they get elected |
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tba Apprentice
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 1:27 am Post subject: haha |
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im laughing inside...
i just thought you might have a preference or knew something i didnt about the qualities, pros, or cons of particular vms since there are so many options. ill stick with the one i got for now i guess |
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delta407 Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 2876 Location: Chicago, IL
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 1:31 am Post subject: |
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I've had issues with Blackdown, and it tends to be slow. IBM is pretty solid, and reasonably fast. Sun defines the standard and thus is very, very stable, but it's large (50+ MB) and slow (but faster than the other JREs here).
I would push Sun, regardless of the silly licensing thing. It's not GPL (far from it), but if you want a good JRE... |
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klieber Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 3657 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 1:33 am Post subject: Re: haha |
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tba wrote: | i just thought you might have a preference or knew something i didnt about the qualities, pros, or cons of particular vms since there are so many options. |
Nope -- I am sadly uninformed when it comes to java. Don't know much about it at all.
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tba Apprentice
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 4:04 am Post subject: cool |
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thanks again guys |
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jeropa n00b
Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Winnipeg
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 4:14 am Post subject: LimeWire |
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FYI: I just downloaded and installed LimeWire. It's both easy and painless. Just make sure you have a JRE installed. (I used Sun's 1.4.0)
I haven't played with LimeWire much yet, but it looks ok. _________________ - Jeropa |
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karl11 Guru
Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 469 Location: Raleigh, NC
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 2:49 pm Post subject: emerge qtella |
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QTella is a Gnutella client that is in the portage tree. |
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