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| Step 1. # rpm -q kaffe kaffe-1.0.6-11mdk # rpm -e kaffe-1.0.6-11mdk 2.http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html Get the JRE not the SDK(Software Development Kit), unless you plan to do java coding. You have 2 choices: Linux GNUZIP Tar shell script or Linux Red Hat RPM shell script choose which is best for you - the tar will work for all Linux distros, the rpm should work for mandrake but using the tar.gz is safer You will be asked to accept their licence, then choose a mirror and download it. Note the: The download size of the file j2re-1_3_1_03-linux-i386.bin = 15,213,137 bytes. After downloading do: # ls -l | grep j2re -rw-r--r-- 1 don don 15213137 Apr 11 23:42 j2re-1_3_1_03-linux-i386.bin To check the file is the right size (obviously Sun dont know about md5sums )now install it, for the install notes for linux check out: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/install-linux.html # mkdir /usr/local/java # cd /usr/local/java # mv ~don/j2re-1_3_1_03-linux-i386.bin . # chmod 755 j2re-1_3_1_03-linux-i386.bin # ./j2re-1_3_1_03-linux-i386.bin # echo $PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin # ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1_03/bin/java /usr/local/bin/java 3. http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/us...e/installation Linux - Open a shell and cd (change directory) to the directory where you downloaded the installer. At the prompt type: sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin $ chmod 755 LimeWireLinux.bin $ ./LimeWireLinux.bin Don |
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