is limewire really worth all this trouble? I dont think so I will find something else to use.

Good luck, especially if you want a stable linux client with more than just basic features.

LimeWire is relatively easy to set up. I never had any problems with it. It's not THAT hard. Well - you have to know how to use a console and what some basic error_outputs mean...

My 2 cents
 

Hey,

Some guys here are being pretty bitchy, and that's not going to solve anything.

I loaded Limewire a few days ago, and after wrangling with Java for a while, everything was fine. However, as of this morning, I get what seems to be the very popular LAX error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: RunLime

What I find odd is how this can just happen "overnight" without me having done anything. Aside from install blunders (which this obviously isn't), I really don't know what to do about this. I've tried the more popular 'runlime.sh' scripts, as well as checking that 'java -version' checks out.

Any ideas?

My 2 cents (pt2)
 

Allow me to add that my last post's error referred to running 'runlime.sh' from console. When I run the executable from the desktop, or 'LimeWire' from the LimeWire directory, I get the exact freak-out that the person who started this thread posted (just to save space, I'll not do that).

try installing the 1.9 beta. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with the sun jre and got the java.lang.NullPointerException in the install log, but it started just fine

Script solved problems for me!
 

The script included in one of the previous
posts solved the problem the first poster
had. I'm using Debian Sid and JDK 1.3.1.