Can someone clear something up for me on the install of amule?

ludwig W · 05-30-2005, 04:35 PM

Hi, installing amule on Suse 9.2 was a pain.Basically I had to do this:
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/...n_Installation
However, on SuSE 9.3, it's easy. One just install's the packman rpm for amule on SUSE 9.3 and off you go.
My question is , why was it so hard to install amule on 9.2?
Was it something to do with wxGTK?

bulliver · 05-31-2005, 01:37 PM

I don't understand your complaint...
It tells you to download the rpm and install it, and if you don't have wxGTK installed, install that first...

How is installing two rpms a pain, while installing one is easy?

ludwig W · 05-31-2005, 01:55 PM

ok, thanks anyway

bulliver · 05-31-2005, 02:03 PM

Why did you edit you original response? If you still don't understand something I will try to help...

You did notice that the page you linked to had two sets of instructions right? One for building from source, and at the bottom, for installing by rpm...

ludwig W · 05-31-2005, 02:20 PM

Ok, I'll give you the full story:

With Suse 9.2, installing amule was a pain in the bum.
The page that I gave a link to has been changed since the new version of amule came out. I didn't realise this and that's why I edited my reply. Then I thought, I can't really be bothered going into all this, so i just said 'thanks' instead

To give you an idea of what you had to do to install amule on 9.2, you had to :

Quote:

1. The install of amule is rather less than straightforward .We will concentrate on the rpm installation outlined HERE . First we need to download wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm and wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm

2. Now, chances are that your install of SuSE might well come with a version of wxGTK, namely wxGTK-2.4.2.4 . In order for amule to work we need to delete this version and install the version and it's development package that you just downloaded .So, open YAST then INSTALL AND REMOVE SOFTWARE and search for "wxGTK" and then remove it. You might have to remove some programs that rely on it, but you can reinstall them later.

3. Open your teminal and log in as root or super user.Then:

# rpm -Uvh wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm

# ldconfig

4. Now we need to install wxbase. Download wxBase-2.4.2-1.i586.rpm and then

# 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

5.Now download libcryptopp-5.2.1-1.i586-RH-SuSE.rpm and libcryptopp-devel-5.2.1-1.i586-RH-SuSE.rpm and install by:

# rpm -ivh libcryptopp-5.2.1-1.i586-RH-SuSE.rpm

#rpm -ivh libcryptopp-devel-5.2.1-1.i586-RH-SuSE.rpm

6. Finally, amule is ready to install. Download the latest version. At the time of writing this is aMule-2.0.0rc5-1.i586-SuSE_9.rpm Install by:

# rpm -ivh aMule-2.0.0rc5-1.i586-SuSE_9.rpm

All the above was in the page that I tried to link to on the amule site which has been changed recently.

Now, with the new version of amule, all that palarva has gone and the install is just a simple rpm install.
I was just wondering why, that's all

bulliver · 05-31-2005, 03:02 PM

I see.

I would say the problem is that amule required the newest version of wxGTK to work, thus requiring you to remove the old and install the new. I guess in the interim the newest stable version of wxGTK has the features that amule needs, so this is no longer required...

ludwig W · 05-31-2005, 04:32 PM

Well, SuSE 9.3 comes with wxGTK-2.5.3.1-5 and amule-2.0.0-1.pm.1 installs fine on that version.(NB: Suse 9.2 came with wxGTK-2.4.2.4).

Now, amule-2.0.0-1.pm.1 also installs fine on the latest version of wxGTK, namely wxGTK 2.6.0, so amule is not as fussy as it used to be about which version of wxGTK it uses.

Now, I don't know whether this is becasue of changes in the new version of amule or changes in the new version of wxGTK.???
I notice on the amule web site that it says "since wxGTK >= 2.5.x you don't need wxBase anymore

", so presumably there were some big changes in wxGTK.

I'm really just trying to figure out what's happened, that's all. It's one of those questions that isn't really that important ,but it just bugs me not knowing the answer, that's all.