Essential Apps : Limewire « Ubuntu Newbie

Essential Apps : Limewire

24 08 2006

Ok one of the reasons i had kept my windows partition was for using LimeWire (for downloading legal files of course). Then i found out that LimeWire can be installed on Ubuntu, it does take a bit of monkeying around with command line and stuff but heres how to do it :

First download the LimeWire .rpm file from LimeWire.com, put it on the desktop
Then, to get alien, which converts .rpm to .deb, type ” sudo aptitude update”
then “sudo aptitude install alien”

Now to actually install LimeWire : “cd Desktop”

Then “sudo alien -i <Insertfilenamehere>.rpm

Et voila!

EDIT:

If Limewire isn’t working for you under Edgy, there is a fix which works in most cases, click here

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Date : 24 August 2006
Categories : Essential Apps, Uncategorized

8 responses to “Essential Apps : Limewire”

16 10 2006: Daniel (15:01:52) :

Doesn’t sudo alien -i .rpm only turn the rpm into a deb? don’t you still have install the deb. i could be wrong but I am just checking.
16 10 2006: slibuntu (20:26:20) :

You can just double click it and the package installer will come up and all you have to do is click install
10 03 2007: kevn (21:56:14) :

alien worked but limewire wont open whats up
11 03 2007: slibuntu (01:50:24) :

Actually, as it happens i’m having the same problem atm, you wouldn’t be running 6.10 Edgy would you?
11 03 2007: kevn (17:08:22) :

yup
12 03 2007: slibuntu (01:22:36) :

Yeah, Limewire stopped working for me under Edgy aswell, I dunno whats wrong, but if i find a fix, i’ll post it up
21 05 2007: don (15:57:25) :

Just use frostwire. It’s a port of limewire with all the pro features but for free. Install it using automatix.
8 01 2008: joker (22:16:24) :

how do i get alien?