Frostwire Installation trouble

[derelict888]

After installing FrostWire 4.18.0.deb file for ubuntu and installing it, I received the following error when trying to run it;

One or more necessary files appears to be invalid...

I've looked around the net a bit and found that usually its a java issue, however I seem to be using a supported version. Here is what sudo update-alternatives --config java returns;

There are 2 alternatives which provide `java'.

  Selection    Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
 +        1    /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java
*         2    /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Here is the error from frostwire;

FrostWire version 4.17
Java version 1.6.0_07 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Linux v. 2.6.24-23-generic on amd64
Free/total memory: 61275512/62259200

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/limewire/util/VersionUtils
	at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.load(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.limewire.util.VersionUtils
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
	... 6 more

STARTUP ERROR!

Any ideas?

[fooman]

try opening synaptic (system > administration > synaptic package manager)....search for "openjdk" and uninstall any openjdk packages that are installed.

next search for "sun" and install the following if they are not installed already:

sun-java6-bin
sun-java6-fonts
sun-java6-jre

see if that helps.

[derelict888]

Just realised I have both JRE and JDK installed, but I need at JDK for some java apps I run. Guess I'm crap out of luck, ty.

[Nerv68]

I was having pretty much the same error. I got it to work though. Try going to synaptic package manager, install sun java, then uninstall frostwire. (sudo apt-get remove frostwire) then go to the website and re-installed it. Thats what I did and it works fine now.

[FIONEX]

Just so you know, you can have OpenJDK-jre installed at the same time as Sun-Java-Jre. They are both JRE's but different implementations. Java is more stable/supported. When you do:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

It gives you the path to each JRE. So if you press "2" and then hit enter, your java programs start running with sun-java-jre. if you press "1" and hit enter, then they'll run using OpenJDK. The program "java" is just a link to either Sun's or OpenJDK's Java Runtime Environment.



LOOOOOOOOOOL. I just installed the new 4.18 Frostwire and I ran into your problem. The developpers forgot to include a class in the package! try installing 4.17 if u can find it!

[cybrsaylr]

How does Frostwire work?
Do you get any bogus files?

I've been having great results with Nicotine-Plus.
It's in the repos.

[quill3033]

How does Frostwire work?
Do you get any bogus files?

I've been having great results with Nicotine-Plus.
It's in the repos.

Yes there are some bogus files and you have to be careful when you play files in windows machine as some have viruses. I usually 'preview' before I finish downloading to make sure it's a fair dinkum file.

I seem to get a lot less 'junk' results than with limewire - it seems to be better at weeding them out.

[themusicwave]

Here is a link to the i586 version 4.17. Just change the link as needed for different versions:

http://main2.frostwire.com/frostwire....17.0.i586.deb

[jezza1972]

I had this problem. I went back to an earlier version of frostwire and al was well again.

[uptheirons1]

I think there is something wrong with the newest frostwire debian package. So I went to www.frostwire.com and downloaded the fedora rpm version instead and saved it to my home directory. Then I opened a terminal and installed alien to convert the rpm to a deb.

Here is what I did in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -i frostwire-4.18.0.noarch.rpm

Now I have the newest version of frostwire working on ubuntu.
You can do that in the terminal or you can just download my converted deb file here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zenzgvyl4wa