even weirder problem
 

OK....got java installed.

Go to install limewire and here is the dump:

[root@localhost downloads]# sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin
Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH
environment variable. You must install a VM prior to
running this program.

ok...no problem. per a previous post i had read i needed to 'source .bashrc' or something like that...when i did that, the error, 'bash: .bash_profile: No such file or directory'
displayed. wtf?

thanks in advance

answer
 

Add this to your /etc/profile :

JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2re1.4.2_03
export JAVA_HOME
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

(Supposed you installed the jre in /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_03...)

Then reboot and presto, should work now.

R.