LimeWire Adds Ubuntu Support

Written by Ernesto on May 02, 2007 

The popular filesharing application LimeWire released Debian packages for Ubuntu. The latest LimeWire release is tested on Ubuntu Edgy and Kubuntu Edgy/Feisty, and both the free and pro versions are available for download.

limewire ubuntuUp until today LimeWire was only available as an .rpm package. Unfortunately these packages didn’t work on the latest Ubuntu versions without having to apply a workaround. Luckily, the LimeWire developers didn’t sit still, and today they release a new version that fully supports Ubuntu.

On the LimeWire Blog we read: “With several developers using Kubuntu on their development workstations we thought it was about time to officially support Ubuntu and provide packages for the growing Ubuntu user community.”

LimeWire is by far the most installed filesharing application. LimeWire is installed on 18.3% of all Windows PCs according to a report from Digital Music News, runner-up eDonkey is only installed on 3.3% of PCs. The market share of LimeWire is only expected to grow now it’s available to the ever growing Ubuntu community.

The latest LimeWire Beta for Ubuntu can be found over here.

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11 Responses

1 May 02, 2007 at 23:32 by Johan Emeren

Why use limewire when you have emule?
Or even better Utorrent/Azureus

2 May 03, 2007 at 02:17 by MLx

[quote comment="95641"]Why use limewire when you have emule?
Or even better Utorrent/Azureus[/quote]
eMule is:
1.) only for Windows
2.) only for ed2k networks. in fact, now that I look at Limewire’s wikipedia entry, it doesn’t even support ed2k, so the two programs are unrelated.
IMO the gnutella networks are better than ed2k - never got spam/suspucious search results from G1/G2 networks… I just hope Shareaza gets to the 2.3 version soon! :)

3 May 03, 2007 at 03:47 by kye

Theres an open source version of limewire called ‘frostwire’ ive been using it for a while and works great.
http://www.frostwire.com/

4 May 03, 2007 at 04:23 by jacotyco

no one smart enough to use ubuntu would be dumb enough to use limewire the way it is now

5 May 03, 2007 at 10:55 by jonom

frostwire ftw!

6 May 03, 2007 at 11:21 by Rich

[quote comment="95723"]no one smart enough to use ubuntu would be dumb enough to use limewire the way it is now[/quote]
Yeah, because Ubuntu users tend to be as versed as Mac users…

7 May 03, 2007 at 15:00 by cisco

[quote comment="95711"]Theres an open source version of limewire called ‘frostwire’ ive been using it for a while and works great.
http://www.frostwire.com//quote
Limewire IS open source DOH!!!

8 Dec 07, 2007 at 22:36 by JOEL VEGA

IM HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY LIME WIRE GETTIG CONNECTED

9 Jan 12, 2008 at 00:21 by Google

I Think,Ä°t is very nice information…

Hitchhiker Nation

10 Feb 01, 2008 at 20:06 by mister b

frostwire is the same as limewire pro except its free, where as with limewire if you want the ‘pro’ stuff you will have to buy it or compile it yourself :)

11 Mar 18, 2008 at 20:40 by very

thk u so so much. atleast somebody cares to create software for Ubuntu OS also, along with Win and Mac.

I’m breaking my head b’coz Nokia PC suite is not available for Ubuntu.

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