Setting Up LimeWire

by scott_glaser — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

— filed under: Post-Install Solutions

LimeWire is a file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use. LimeWire allows you to share any file such as.mp3s, .avis, jpgs, tiffs, etc. Limewire is written in Java, and will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun, and other computing platforms. Publish your original content to the world without setting up a website!

Requirements

This Solution requires that you have Java installed for your particular architechture i386 or x86_64.
The author recommends reading Important Information about Using P2P Software Safely.

Doing the work

Installing LimeWire

LimeWire is not incuded by default, to use LimeWire you first have to install it:

Open your favorite browser and go to http://www.limewire.com/english/content/downloadfree2.shtml.
In the section titled "LIMEWIRE BASIC v 4.12.11", select Get Basic or Get Pro, this will be based on wether or not you want to pay for all the features offere or just want the basic version of limewire.
From the "Your almost Done!" page please select "I will not use LimeWire for copyright infringment", as we here at FedoraSolved.Org do not condone copyright infringment.
From the Download LimeWire page select Linux (RPM - Redhat, Fedora) Note: Ensure that you download the file to your users home directory, if that is not your default download location, move the file downloaded to your users home directory.
Open a terminal
Change to your download dirctory by entering the following, substiute you actual information this is only an example:
```
cd /home/sglaser/downloads
```
Install the LimeWire software by entering the following command:
```
su -c 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps LimeWireLinux.rpm'
```
At the password prompt enter roots passoword, Then press enter, This completes the installation of LimeWire.

How to test

As your normal user select "Applications -> Internet -> Limewire", follow the steps to setup the LimeWire application if this is the first time you have executed this application.

Common problems and fixes

Typically the only issue that will impact LimeWire is JAVA you need to ensure that it is installed properly in accordance with http://fedorasolved.org/browser-solutions/java-i386/ which is the Sun Java Installation on an i386, or http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/ which is the Blackdown Java Installation on and x86_64.

More Information

Disclaimer

Users should be aware of the legal limitations of the Peer-Peer sharing Applications. Please do read the legal issues page.

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net.

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