Revision as of 03:35, 23 December 2005

Installing aMule on Slackware

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 becomming 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.