Compilation Installation

Part "A" describes manual compilation from a tarball, part "B" rpm installation!

A) wxGTK - wxBase - libcrypto - aMule manual compilation

WARNING: Make sure you have NO wx installation. If you already have wx instaled, check How to uninstall wxWidgets before starting a new installation. If after all, you still have problems, check if wx is installed twice, since that's a common compilation and runtime problem too.

• Step 1. wxBase
  • download wxBase ->
    • wxBase-2.4.2.tar.gz

• compile wxBase ->
  • tar -zxvf wxBase-2.4.2.tar.gz
  • cd wxBase-2.4.2
  • ./configure --prefix=/usr && make

• as root:
  • make install
  • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config /usr/bin/wx-config
  • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxbase-2.4-config /usr/bin/wxbase-config
  • ldconfig

• Step 2. wxGTK
  • download wxGTK ->
    • wxGTK-2.4.2.tar.gz

• compile wxGTK ->
  • tar -zxvf wxGTK-2.4.2.tar.gz
    • cd wxGTK-2.4.2
    • ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gtk2 --with-gtk && make

• as root:
  • make install
  • ldconfig

• Step 3. libcrypto
  • download libcrypto ->
    • crypto-5.1.tar.bz2

• compile libcrypto ->
  • tar xvjf crypto-5.1.tar.bz2
  • cd crypto-5.1
  • make

If you have problems compiling with older gcc versions, it can be due to stray DOS newlines in some files. Invoke

file * | grep CRLF | while read file rest; do dos2unix ${file%:}; done

to convert them to UNIX newlines (bash syntax).

• as root:
  • make install && ldconfig

• Step 4. aMule
  • download latest aMule version ->
    • latest aMule
    • (mirror) latest aMule

• compile aMule ->
  • tar -zxvf aMule-X.X.X.tar.gz (replace X with the right version nr..)
  • cd aMule-X.X.X
  • ./configure --disable-debug --enable-optimise && make

• as root:
  • make install

• run aMule as user from your console by typing -> amule

B) wxGTK - wxBase - libcrypto - aMule rpms

• Step 1. wxBase
  • download wxBase ->
    • wxBase-2.4.2-1.i586.rpm

• install wxBase ->
  • as root:
    • rpm -Uvh wxBase-2.4.2-1.i586.rpm
    • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config /usr/bin/wx-config
    • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxbase-2.4-config /usr/bin/wxbase-config
    • ldconfig

• Step 2. wxGTK
  • download wxGTK and wxGTK-devel ->
    • wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm   wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm

• install wxGTK ->
  • as root:
    • rpm -Uvh wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm
    • ldconfig

• Step 3. libcrypto
  • download libcrypto ->
    • RH & SuSE: libcryptopp-5.1-4_rh9-suse.i686.rpm   libcryptopp-devel-5.1-4_rh9-suse.i686.rpm
    • FC1: libcryptopp-5.1-4_fc1.i686.rpm   libcryptopp-devel-5.1-4_fc1.i686.rpm
    • MDK: libcryptopp5-5.1-2mdk.i586.rpm   libcryptopp5-devel-5.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
  • as root:
    • rpm -Uvh the-above-downloaded-package.rpm

• Step 4. aMule
  • download latest aMule version ->
    • latest aMule
    • (mirror) latest aMule

• install aMule ->
  • as root:
    • rpm -Uvh aMule-X.X.X-1.iX86-X.rpm (replace X with the right version nr..)

• run aMule as user from your console by typing -> amule