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datboya
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 Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: Help dekstop problem |
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| ok please help am only 14 but i need this help when i download something like limewire or a software on mozzilla i click on open it loads for a bit then just doesnt do anything then i tried it on the dekstop and it done the same thing anybody had this prob before |
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ShinyThings
Tux's lil' helper
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| Are you using Gentoo? Or at least Linux? I would assume you are based on the forum you are posting in. First, make sure you are downloading Linux software. Windows software wont run on Linux without some kind of emulation or compatibility layer, like WINE. For Limewire, it is a Java application, so follow the Gentoo Java Guide, assuming you are using Gentoo. |
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davascript
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Location: Pennsylvania
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Are you downloading windows executables? If so how did you get gentoo installed?
Read up on this, it should help you
A Portage Introduction
| ShinyThings wrote: | | Are you using Gentoo? Or at least Linux? I would assume you are based on the forum you are posting in. First, make sure you are downloading Linux software. Windows software wont run on Linux without some kind of emulation or compatibility layer, like WINE. For Limewire, it is a Java application, so follow the Gentoo Java Guide, assuming you are using Gentoo. |
Running Limewrie in WINE would be far more time consuming and redundant when you can get java running and then emerge frostwire.  |
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