Alternate Gnutella clients to Limewire

addie_goodvibes · 03-25-2009, 05:08 PM

I have been trying to install Limewire from Shell also found an RPM Source for Limewire,

With several unsuccesful attempts to get Limewire launched past the spash screen,
see below for my other ost on this problem.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-stuck-713907/

I am looking for a good Gnutella alternate prefeerably a non Java Platform as it seems al my problems with Limewire
& Google Earth are java related.

I went to XFdrake downoaded Google earth installer, and it seemed to launch then after spash screen it closed down!!!

acid_kewpie · 03-25-2009, 05:15 PM

I always liked gtk-gnutella 5 years ago.

addie_goodvibes · 03-25-2009, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

I always liked gtk-gnutella 5 years ago.

Thanks I will give it a sht, is it available through RPM in MCC?

zebra90210 · 03-25-2009, 07:36 PM

have your tried using Ktorrent?

addie_goodvibes · 03-25-2009, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

I always liked gtk-gnutella 5 years ago.

I went into MCC and downloaded GTKGnutella whe I try to launch from X start menu it does nothing??

acid_kewpie · 03-26-2009, 03:49 AM

don't run it from a menu then open a terminal run it and if it fails there you'll probably have some nice useful error messages to help you.

addie_goodvibes · 03-26-2009, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

don't run it from a menu then open a terminal run it and if it fails there you'll probably have some nice useful error messages to help you.

Quote:

*** ANCIENT VERSION DETECTED! ***

Sorry, this program is too ancient to run without
an explicit user action: If it's not possible to upgrade
you may edit the file

/home/addiegoodvibes/.gtk-gnutella/config_gnet

and set the variable "ancient_version_force" to
"gtk-gnutella/0.96.3-12293 (2006-11-09; GTK2; Linux i686)".

You will then be able to run this version forever, but
please consider upgrading, as Gnutella is an evolving
network in which ancient software is less useful or even
harmful!

*** EXITING ***

09-03-26 03:12:20 (WARNING): trapped foreign exit(), cleaning up...
09-03-26 03:12:20 (WARNING): cleanup all done.

I already did what it said & edited the config file to

Quote:

ancient_version_force = gtk-gnutella/0.96.3-12293 (2006-11-09; GTK2; Linux i686)

then ran KTG-GNutella and got the same error

there is no current rpm version even through PFL....

acid_kewpie · 03-26-2009, 05:38 AM

why not get the non-ancient version? last release was from april last year.