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How To Install Prozilla On Knoppix

Hi
I am a newbie who plan to install prozilla download accelerator on Knoppix Live CD (on the PC hard disk). How to do this? Can I use binary package for Debian, Ubuntu or other distro?
Can I compile and install from source code tarball?
How to find the prozilla home page and the tarball of the latest version?
(format: tar.gz or tar.bz2

Thsnk you for all replies.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ptbrq (Post 3588711)

You can get the source code from the link that repo provided. When you install knoppix on your HD make sure you get the C compiler (gcc).

AFAIK, there is no binary debian package for prozilla.
cheers,
jdk

Once you have the package (get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/prozilla/ ), do the following to manually compile and install it.

Code:

1. tar zxvf prozilla-1.3.7.4.tar.gz

2. cd prozilla-1.3.7.4

3. ./configure

4. make

5. su (i. e. become root)

6. make install

7. exit

8 . cd ..

9. rm -rf prozilla-1.3.7.4

A usefull BASH script to then use prozilla if you are going to download many, similarly named files and you soon get tired of manually renaming them once prozilla complains a file with the same name already exists:

Code:

filename="$1"

file_base=$(basename ${filename})

if [ -f ${file_base} ]; then

    #if the file exists already

    filename="${file_base%.*}"

    ext=`echo ${file_base%}|awk -F . '{print $NF}'`

    fudge=`echo $RANDOM`

    underscore="_"

    fudge=$underscore$fudge

    dot="."

    newfile=$filename$fudge$dot$ext

    echo $newfile

    echo $file_base

    mv -i $file_base $newfile

    cmd="proz $1 -k4 --retry-delay=1"

    $cmd

else

    cmd="proz $1 -k4 --retry-delay=1"

    $cmd

fi

I saved this file as pz.sh on my system, now all I need to do to download a file with prozilla is go

pz.sh <url>

where <url> is replaced with the URL of the file I want, and it is almost 99% guarranteed that all files downloaded will have unique names.