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mikshaw

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Posted: April 19 2006,01:52

/opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin/limewire is non-existent...as it should be, since limewire is not a part of java.

Since you have java runtime installed, my only guess at this point is that the icon is apparently not reading the command correctly. Try changing it to this:

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export PATH="$PATH:/opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin" && limewire

This is assuming that limewire is a *.dsl so it would already be in your path.

Otherwise you may have to set up /opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin as a part of your PATH before trying to load limewire, and use only the command "limewire" in the icon.

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lesliek

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Posted: April 19 2006,02:37

I've just got home after a few hours away and hope to make further progress with this soon.

However, I had to say something right now to lovdsl.

I've taken it from your last post that I offended you in mine.

If that's so, I beg your pardon very much. I didn't mean to be offensive in any way--far from it. I really do appreciate very much your trying to help me. I'm pretty new to Linux and have asked a lot of questions, both in this forum and others. I am constantly impressed by the willingness of other people to try to help me solve the problems I raise.

Although I don't yet have a solution to my present problem, you certainly started me on the right track to solving it by directing me to the menu file and I suspect that I haven't yet been able to get to the end of the track because of the path business in the relevant menu entry. I haven't found any other menu entry that has a path command in it. Once I get that worked out, I'm confident the icon will work.

Again, my apologies if I offended you,

Leslie

lesliek

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Posted: April 19 2006,06:33

If, when I used still to have a real job, anyone who worked for me had done to me what I've done to lovdsl and mikshaw over this problem, they would have had cause seriously to regret it afterwards.

I knew that the relevant java file included in its name the numbers 1_0_5_0 right up until the second when I knew that it didn't, something that mikshaw had warned me about in his first intervention. The numbers were, as he had thought, 1_5_0.

The icon works perfectly with the (correct) PATH command included.

I'm sorry that I put you both to such unnecessary trouble.