Getting Frostwire to work on Mandriva Linux?

[Pascal11110]

I have never used Mandriva Linux, but a friend of mine is trying to install frostwire on it. Can someone give me a step by step instruction, like where to download it, which version to download, and then instructions on how to install it if it goes as planned? I'll have him post any problems he has if he has problems during the installation. Thanks a lot.

[TeaAge]

I think this should be the latest version:
http://hermes.frostwire.com/frostwir...7.1.noarch.rpm

Just download it and install it with a double-click on it.

You also have to install java (if it isn't). I have the following packages installed:

java-1.6.0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.10-1mdv2009.0
rootcerts-java-20080503.00-2mdv2009.0
java-1.6.0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.10-1mdv2009.0
java-1.6.0-sun-fonts-1.6.0.10-1mdv2009.0
timezone-java-2008i-1mdv2009.0
java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.10-1mdv2009.0
java-access-bridge-1.24.0-1mdv2009.0
java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc-1.6.0.10-1mdv2009.0
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.16.b11.4mdv2009.0

Then it should work.

Regards,
TeaAge

[Pascal11110]

thanks a lot

[bartos]

This is what I had to do to get Frostwire 4.17.1 to run without errors on Mandriva 2009

Move the frostwire-<version> file to the /opt directory

su -
mv frostwire-<version>.tar.gz /opt

Uncompress and Extract

cd /opt
tar zxvf <frostwire version>.tar.gz


Next, test start FROSTWIRE, as your NORMAL USER


From Command Line:

/opt/frostwire<version>/runFrostwire.sh

[TeaAge]

This is what I had to do to get Frostwire 4.17.1 to run without errors on Mandriva 2009

Why didn't you use the rpm?

Regards,
TeaAge

[bartos]

The rpm seems to have a install error that doesn't set up properly and sudo update-alternatives --config java doesn't fix it. Seems to be a common problem that I had also, so this is an alternative.