Well I did indeed have the wrong version installed, odd, having multiple jre instances running, oh well, but now that I have the correct version running, I am now getting this error...
Launching installer...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.noClassDefFoundError: com/zerog/lax/LAX

What in the world...

Because of the number of views to this thread and the fact that 9 out of 10 had success. I am posting here to take care of that other ten percent as well. The person with the working suggestions was so close to what I had to suggest that I thought he had cut and pasted my solution to this thread but the date of his post quickly vouched for his originality and authorship. Like I said "close" but not exact. My solution is the "be-all-end-all" of all installation woes. I know as I have four distributions of linux installed on one computer. That allows me to test and fine tune my methods for multiple distributions. The methods I speak of are listed in my own thread titled, "The Solution to All Install Problems". I've posted many times throughout this forum because this program is truly worth the effort. I have tried napshare and gtk-gnutella of the linux persuasion as well as morpheus and kazaa of the windows xp persuasion. Kazaa is the best for my needs and second is limewire if I had to compare all gnutella programs, regardless of OS.

how can i remove the older versions of Java?

rpm -e kaffe --nodeps

if it is a rpm package.

rm -fr /usr/java/j2sdk1.2.1

if it was installed by tarball (tar.gz or tar.bz2)

Enjoy.

Great i got it, Im running Suse 8.0 and I had to delete a couple of directories in /usr/lib directory (sunjava1 and sunjava1.1.8)
Then I installed 1.3.1 (rpm)
Next I ran SuSEconfig
and LimeWire installed smoothly

Great news!

Hi...

OK, I've read through the faqs, I'm running the right version of Java (ok, it's 1.3.1_03-b03 instead of 02, but surely that won't matter), and Limewire _still_ won't install.

Here's my error message:

Launching installer...

Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx50331648'.
Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'.
Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. Thi s application will now exit. (LAX)

Stack Trace:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGcf
at ZeroGcj.<init>(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8cf498c)
at ZeroGb3.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8cd192d)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x 8dafee1)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.b(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x 8c781c1)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8569a61)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:native )
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82979 d6)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x824f3eb )
[root@pleiades joelp]# java -version
java version "1.3.1_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1_03-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_03-b03, mixed mode)

Sounds like you have java in your /usr/bin pointing to another directory. Try this link to solve your problems:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=11187

HTH
altoine

1.RIGHT CLICK ON THE SETUP FILE
2. GO TO THE COMPATIBILITY TAB
3.SELECT WINDOWS 2000 OR 95
4.THEN CHECK RUN THIS PROGRAM IN COMPATIBILITY MODE
5.AND NOW ITS WORKS.

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