gnutella
 

installed gtk-gnutella rpm used software installer how do I start the program? went to the home directory and cannot find gnutella directory or readme.the software installer said it installation ok. what next?

The name of the binary is possibly gtk-gnutella (at least it was that for me).
Mine was installed to:
..../gtk-gnutella-0.18/src/gtk-gnutella
If you still cannot find it, open a terminal window, and search it entering:
find / -name 'gnutella'
It will show you the full path to the binary.
However, I did not like gnutella because I could hardly ever finish downloading anything. Lime wire was a bit better, but it was still not as good as Audiogalaxy a long time ago. (But one day audiogalaxy upgraded itself and from that day it was no longer usable in windows, and I could never make its Linux version work)

thanks for the info I went searching on my own and found it in the /usr/bin
clicked on the icon and it came right up. have been trying to find some old rock and roll but I can 't seem to get a connection that will allow me to search and download what I want. am up for other ideas about p2p thanks for the help though..

popcorn, you may want to shoot around and chat on irc, and if you are lucky you can find someone with an FTP server full of songs you'd like. Other than just going out and getting the CD's that's the best thing I can think of since gtk-gnutella won't work for you. There are other "command line" options that you may want to look into, I don't know if they would help though since your problem is bandwidth and not resources.

The only other thing I know about is edonkey.Never got it to work on my box.

what you need to do is install a hotline client on your machine and then find some good trackers. i think linux versions of hotline are HSX and GSX, and fidelo. hotlines definetly the way to go, it blows gnutella networks away.