frostwire [solved]

[grimx]

i'm using Mandriva Free 2007:

I downloaded and installed Frostwire using MCC. The icon shows up in the menu, but when i click on it, it does not run.

Help

Edited March 18, 2007 by grimx

[arctic]

Open a terminal and launch the application from there. What error message do you get in the terminal?

[grimx]

It's been solved.

Edited March 19, 2007 by grimx

[AussieJohn]

Please let us know how you solved it. This could be helpful to other newbies.

 

Just saying it is fixed doesn't give help to anyone else.

Even if it was just fixing a little booboo that you made can be a help to others. There is no shame here in admitting booboos. we all make them even after lots of experience.

 

That if why this MUB is probably the most successful site in its field. Elitism is one of the things relatively absent from here.

 

Cheers. John.

[lynch]

It may not be the way grimx solved it, but here's the way I got Frostwire working on my 2008.1 64bit system:

 

Frostwire was not available via urpmi or MCC so I downloaded the noarch version from sourceforge.

It would not work when I clicked the icon in Kmenu >Internet >Frostwire.

When I ran it from the terminal, I got errors saying to update to version 1.5-sun.

I did and tried again, but got the same errors.

So I ran this, as root:

update-alternatives --config java

Here's what I got:

There are 2 programs which provide `java'.

 Selection	Command
-----------------------------------------------
*   1		/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea.x86_64/bin/java
+	 2		/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java

Enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:

Turns out it was using Icedtea, so I selected /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java.

After that I ran Frostwire as root from the terminal again and it found java ok but it was complaining about the order in which some libs were being loaded. I've forgotten which ones they were.

But I did a search on google/linux that turned up the final piece to the puzzle (for me):

I opened a root terminal and typed:

nano /usr/lib/frostwire/runFrostwire.sh

 

I then changed this line from

export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

to

export AWT_TOOLKIT=XToolkit

And that got it running for me. :)

Hope that helps someone.

lynch