Aha! This issue does look like it's caused by a makeself problem! According to the site (http://www.megastep.org/makeself/), :

"Important note for recent GNU/Linux distributions: Archives created with Makeself prior to v2.1.2 were using an old syntax for the head and tail Unix commands that is being progressively obsoleted in their GNU forms. Therefore you may have problems uncompressing some of these archives. A workaround for this is to set the environment variable $_POSIX2_VERSION to enable the old syntax, i.e. :
export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209"

I'd be interested in hearing from a user who has had this issue. Any one having this problem and willing, please try this and reply with results:

Open a terminal window (xterm, konsole, etc) and cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer. If it's on your desktop then just do a 'cd ~/Desktop'. Once you are in the same directory as the installer, run this:

export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 && sh LimeWireLinux.bin

Thanks for the research. We're in the process of reworking our installers anyway, and its very likely we'll dump the zero-g installer for linux altogether. I can't give you an ETA but the next stable version of limewire will have much improved (and much smaller) installers.

hmmmmm
 

i am a linux newb and know very little
this is what i get when i try to install in a term

Preparing to install...
tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
Try `tail --help' for more information.
LimeWireLinux.bin: line 326: [: `)' expected, found -z
WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required and/or available
could not be determined. The installation will be attempted anyway.
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.

through much trial and error i have a VM installed and working well in mozilla.. unfortunately i am sure it's not in a proper directory not to mention i am not exactly sure how to log in to my desktop in root so i can move it to where java reccommends... i suck



when i try that i still get the VM error but i get around the tail issue

[xxxxxxxx@localhost Desktop]$ export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 && 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.
[xxxxxxx@localhost Desktop]$

same here
 

[root@pcp09463737pcs Desktop]# sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin
Preparing to install...
tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
Try `tail --help' for more information.
./LimeWireLinux.bin: line 326: [: `)' expected, found -z
WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required and/or available
could not be determined. The installation will be attempted anyway.
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.
[root@pcp09463737pcs Desktop]#