Revision as of 21:31, 26 June 2008

Installing aMule on Slackware

Someone should check how recent this Article is, and update it for 2.1.3 or better 2.2.0

NOTE: you will need super-user (usually root) access to complete aMule install/uninstallation/update, further you should have at least checkinstall installed.

Installation

Installing wxGTK

Download wxGTK sources (.tar.gz packages) from

www.wxwidgets.org, latest is 2.6.2 as of 21st of Dec 05

tar -xzvf wxGTK*

cd wxGTK*

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-unicode

make

After make finishes, it's about time to install the new files.

Usually this is done by becoming root and invoking

# make install

But: even better, use checkinstall or read up on how to

properly make Slackware packages on slackwiki.org.

checkinstall and selfmade packages can be handled by slackware's package

tools, which make upgrading and removing old cruft from previous

installs a breeze.

If the Slackwiki howto is a little too much for, stick to checkinstall for

the moment: become root

$ su -

then just call

# checkinstall

Just answer the questions and you're done.

Installing wxBase (Optional)

If you downloaded wxGTK earlier than version 2.5 and you are planning to use aMule with command line interface (such as aMuleCMD, aMuleWeb, aMuled, etc), then you you should install wxBase. In any other case, there's no need at all.

Download wxBase sources (.tar.gz packages) from http://www.amule-project.net or http://www.amule.org and do the following:

tar -xzvf wxBase*

cd wxBase*

./configure

make

#the following command must be run as super-user (usually root):

make install

Installing aMule

Grab pre-built Slackware package from linuxpackages.net.

installpkg aMule-2.0.0rc7-i686-1.tgz (or whatever the newest version is)

That's all!

Type amule in a shell to lauch or in KDE (similar in GNOME) go to Kstart->Internet->aMule

Updating

The following command will remove the old aMule package and install the new version:

upgradepkg aMule-2.0.0rc7-i686-1.tgz

Compiling aMule from src

Sometimes you might feel an urge to go cvs or simply don't want

to use prepackaged binaries because of paranoia, the packagers

are dodos or whatever.

Download a src tarball at amule.org.

tar xzvf or tar xjvf the tarball.

Enter the dir

I use this configure call:

./configure --enable-amule-daemon --enable-amulecmd \

--enable-amulecmdgui --enable-webserver --enable-amule-gui \

--enable-cas --enable-alcc --enable-kad-compile --prefix=/usr

this will give you the core, the monolithic, the webserver,

the stats program, the link handler, and... about everything.

after that, run make and in the lucky case it finishes without

errors, follow installation instructions from wxGTK above.

Uninstallation

The following command will remove aMule:

removepkg aMule

Final note

You can even get wxBase and wxGTK .tgz Slackware packages and install them with 'installpkg'. Using the Slackware package manager saves time during installation and makes upgrading easy. You can also type 'pkgtool' as root and then search for the packages you have downloaded and install and/or remove packages.

Enjoy the hard work aMule developers have done and continue to do!

Just remember you will need wxBase and wxGTK installed even when using Slackware package.

Hope this helps.

Catch me on IRC at irc.freenode.com channel #amule nick servnov.

Installing aMule on Slackware 12.0/12.1

Installation requirements

In order to compile aMule 2.2.1 on Slackware 12.0/12.1 you need the following packages:

• geoip 1.4.4 (from http://slacky.eu)
• libupnp 1.6.6 (if you want to use the UPnP feature, get the tarball from http://pupnp.sf.net)
• cryptopp 5.5.2 (from http://slacky.eu)
• wxGTK 2.8.7 (http://www.wxwidgets.org or a precompiled package from http://packages.slackware.it)
• If using Slackware 12.0 upgrade package gcc with >= 4.2.3-i486-1 (http://packages.slackware.it)
• If using Slackware 12.0 upgrade package gcc-g++ with >= 4.2.3-i486-1 (http://packages.slackware.it)
• (optional) ccache-2.4-i486-1 package if you want to speedup compiling

The minimum GCC version declared into the file docs/INSTALL appears to be obsolete as I encountered the following error:

amule: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by amule)

Other packages - system libs rather strictly aMule related - that are needed: these are mentioned at the end of the configure summary of aMule.

• regex system
• libintl system
• libpng 1.2.18
• libgd 2.0.35
• zlib 1.2.3

Compiling aMule

• First install/upgrade the above mentioned packages. Then compile cryptopp (no special flags required) and wxGTK (if not already present) with the following flags:

$ ./configure --with-gtk --enable-unicode --enable-optimise

• Then compile aMule. Run the "configure" with the following parameters for a complete install:

$ ./configure --with-denoise-level=3

--enable-optimize

--enable-verbose

--enable-geoip

--enable-wxcas

--enable-amule-gui

--enable-amulecmd

--enable-amule-daemon

--enable-alc

--enable-alcc

--enable-cas

--disable-debug

--enable-webserver

--enable-ccache (optional, compiling speedup)

--prefix=/your/install/path (optional, if different than /usr/local)

• If you are satisfied of the summary that is shown, run:

$ make

If you have a multi-core CPU you can speedup the compilation adding the parameter "-j" according to the number of logical/phisical CPUs detected on your system, example for a dual-core CPU:

$ make -j 2

• If no error arise, you can run (as root):

1. make install

• Finally run the "amule" executable:

$ amule &

Building a Slackware package

The steps I followed to build a package change just a little.

• First I have installed amule in a different, dedicated path in order to check exactly the results, e.g. adding the following parameter to the configure script:

--prefix=/home/$(whoami)/tmp/amule/usr

Remember to append "/usr" at the end of the path.

• After installing ("make && make install"), strip down all the binaries with the following command in order to squeeze package size (a lot!):

$ cd /home/$(whoami)/tmp/amule/usr/bin

$ for i in alc alcc amule amulecmd amuled amulegui amuleweb cas ed2k wxcas; do strip $i; done

$ cd ../..

$ md install

$ cd install

Here edit "slack-required" and "slack-desc" files according to SlackBuild guidelines. I was lazy and just copied them from another recent Slackware aMule package (changing the relevant requirements).

• Then create the package:

$ cd ..

$ ls

install usr

$ makepkg aMule-x.y.z.tgz

• Test your build and then notify the forum posting the ed2k link (set to release priority the file) ;-)