Frostwire on F11

[voodookid]

Anyone knows what packages are needed in order to run the latest frostwire on F11 ?

[bob]

Here's a very simple way to handle that and a bunch more: http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten.html Dangermouse's autoten will install it and all dependencies very easily.

[Dangermouse]

I have found the latest frostwire (4.18) has problems with finding java etc and havent seem any noticeable difference from 4.17
deps are
Java open source or sun both work, and compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296
heres how i install it or you could use autoten
http://dnmouse.org/frostwire.html

[Dangermouse]

You beet me to it Bob gonna have to learn to type with more than two fingers

[bob]

BTW, congrats on autoten for F11. Worked like a charm. I've said it before: you've made Fedora 'newbie-friendly' at last.

[voodookid]

Worked just fine ... thanks

[JAGS]

i used your guide for frostwire. cheers man.

[sparky63]

yeah so..i uses it..no dice when i click on the frostwire icon in my apps list nothing happens....its kinda fustrating a bit

[Hlingler]

We went through this a week or two ago: latest FrostWire won't unpack it's java junk as normal user (cannot write to system folders). IIRC, I had to start it first time as root user, let it unpack *.jar files, close the start-up dialog and exit terminal, now it runs as any user.

V

[sparky63]

ok well..i just used dangermouse's autoten a little bit ago..i thought that would be a fix..i dont really understand how i would have to unback it as a root user..or is there a way to just get an older version?

[Hlingler]

i dont really understand how i would have to unback it as a root user

(1) Open a terminal window (aka: "GTerm", "XTerm", "Console", "Konsole" - any one of them will do)
(2) Log into terminal as root user by typing:
su -

(NOTE space and dash) and press <ENTER> key; enter root user password when prompted, then press <ENTER> key
(3) Start FrostWire by typing command:
frostwire

and press <ENTER> key
(4) ignore start-up dialog; watch output in terminal, wait for all *jar files to be unpacked
(5) close ("Cancel") start-up dialog
(6) exit terminal by typing:
exit

twice, pressing <ENTER> key each time
(7) start frostwire as any normal user from menus.

V

[sparky63]

ok i did that and got an error...it says
Starting FrostWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
Suitable java version found [java = 1.6.0_13]
Configuring environment...
Loading FrostWire:
CLASSPATH SET TO:
Unable to access jarfile FrostWire.jar

then it says that works best with sun java...should i just delete all my java programs and use sun?

[Hlingler]

Looks like you already have SUN's JAVA ("Suitable java version found [java = 1.6.0_13]"), so I don't know why it would fail. Sorry, out of ideas - the above worked for me.

V

P.S. That is the error I got: "Unable to access jarfile FrostWire.jar". Did you really log into terminal as root user ???

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1275794

[sparky63]

i just dont get why it wont run the jar
ugh..

[Hlingler]

Looks like I also edited (as root user) file /usr/bin/frostwire to read:

#!/bin/bash
export HOSTNAME=localhost
/usr/lib/frostwire/runFrostwire.sh

I removed some spurious reference to a non-existent user at end of third line.

V

i just dont get why it wont run the jar

Because there are no *jar files until they're unpacked from their archive format (as root user).