VMware + Limewire + Edgy = Hair loss

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  1. megamaced

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    Both Limewire and VMware and not 100% compatible with Edgy Eft.

    For Limewire (converted to Deb with Alien), it will give the error:

    Code:
    runLime.sh: 44: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "}")
    However, a temporary workaround is to navigate to the Limewire directory (/usr/lib/LimeWire) and run:

    Code:
    bash ./runLime.sh
    VMware won't run at all at first, if you have upgraded Dapper to Edgy. The first thing you must do is re-run the config scripts so VMware can compile against your new kernel headers. Then you must uninstall libdbus-1-2, which is an old Dapper package which is now defunct in Edgy. For some reason, it doesn't get uninstalled automatically when upgrading. Now the problem is that Edgy uses libdbus-1-3 and VMware is not 100% compatible with it. It will run, that's OK, but it's appearance is badly effected. It looks like an old GTK+1 package :(

    On a side note, Kubuntu Dapper has much better eye-candy :(
     

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