LimeWire and Slackware 8.0 - reg user cannot define DL dir
 

I got limewire installed with only the error that limewire exists and it made the link runLimewire. however, when I start it, it gets to the point where is asks for the download directory and then it pops up the error that it cannot use the dir i selected, no matter what dir I use. the permissions are correct...in a manner of speaking...I changed them to 0777 which makes it world writeable and still get this error
this is a regular user account it is installed under and there should be no reason it can't use a dir I make, right? so what's the deal here? I been poundin keys for 2 hours trying to make this work.

I tried it under the root account and it allowed me to define the dir and then proceeded to seg fault. now don't tell me that it's because I use slackware and blah blah blah, because I know better and linux is linux. I am using the current version with the 1.4.0 jre from sun.

I have the same problem under Mandrake 9.0 - can't create the shared directory as a regular user, but it works fine as root. there must be some solution...

Fellas,

What distribution are you using and with what version? What version of java are you using? Any error messages during install? If you type:

which java

what do you get?

What about typing:

java -version

? What version of LimeWire are you using?

altoine

How did you install LimeWire in the first place? As a "root" user? If so, seek the "Sticky" at the top of the forum for a solution to your delimma.

HTH

altoine