Alter Ego

I actually wrote this post quite some time ago, but totally forgot about it! So go on...

LimeWire is a p2p program that is Java based, if I am not mistaken. We are fortunate to have a Linux version of this excellent software. It's not available on any repositories that I have came across, so you will have to download the deb package.

Go here and start downloading. Choose the basic package (which is FREE) and admit that you will never use it for copyright infringement :P Get the Linux version of the software for Ubuntu. As of today, the file name is LimeWireLinux.deb.

So to install a DEB package, you do this:

It shouldn't take long. Once its done, you can launch the program located at

Applications > Internet > LimeWire

If you feel like you hate it, you can always do this to totally remove it; no traces left. One of the reasons why I started using Ubuntu again was because of this :D


-P means purge.

Have fun!