(SLOVED) Frostwire Problems

philipromano · 2008-07-17 00:53:21

WHy does frostwire not see my version of java. Both of the packages were installed via pacman.

[romano@myhost ~]$ frostwire
Starting FrostWire...
Java exec not found in PATH, starting auto-search...
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/lib/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: cannot access /usr/java/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/java/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /opt/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
[romano@myhost ~]$

Last edited by philipromano (2008-07-17 02:11:58)

securitybreach · 2008-07-17 02:08:35

From of the looks of your output it seems that java is not installed. Open a console and run:

 su -c 'pacman -S j2re frostwire'

I tried to install frostwire to test it out and it works perfectly.
Next time search the wiki first and then the forums. This has been explained before in the forums and the wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide.

BTW this is my buddy I recently converted to ArchLinux and he posted before asking me or searching so take it easy on him ;)

Thanks

Last edited by securitybreach (2008-07-17 02:19:42)

philipromano · 2008-07-17 02:10:35

IT work! thanks securitybreach

tomk · 2008-07-17 06:08:36

The package is called 'jre' and it provides j2re. It is a dependency of frostwire, so pacman installs it automatically when frostwire is requested with the -S flag. jre installs into /opt, so your path needs to be updated. This is done by logging out and in again.

securitybreach · 2008-07-17 12:59:24

Thats what I figured the problem was. He said he had frostwire installed by using -S switch and had logged out. I thought java was installed as a dependency so I got him to verify that java was indeed installed in the /opt directory. I personally do not use jre or frostwire so I searched around the forum for him and found frostwire posts mentioning j2re so I said what the heck and told him to install that. I realized afterwards that jre provides j2re because it tells you when running pacman -S j2re but he said it worked for him. So I dunno maybe the issue was he did not reboot. Thanks for clearing that up tomk.

Thanks

Last edited by securitybreach (2008-07-17 13:04:29)

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#1 2008-07-17 00:53:21

(SLOVED) Frostwire Problems

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Re: (SLOVED) Frostwire Problems

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