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Installing aMule in a Sarge machine

Good day to all,

I have managed to install FreeLink in a Buffalo LinkStation HD-H160LAN, it is a Debian based firmware for this kind of NAS and it is basically a Sarge modified with kernel 2.4.20.

I have edited /etc/apt/sources.list and added just this line

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/ stable main contrib non-free

so I have been able to aptitude update / upgrade but it seems that

#aptitude install amule

doesn't work.

At the moment updating to a 2.6 kernel looks a bit tricky for me so I'd like to stay in 2.4 for a while, which means staying with Sarge and no updating to Lenny.

So I'd like to ask if there are lines missing in my sources.list file, and if I download amule sources and try to compile it in this machine, will I have big troubles with dependencies?

Thank you very much for your attention

Can you be more specific about what "doesn't work"?

Try apt-cache search amule,see if you get any results.
It could be that amule is not in the repositories for Sarge.

Thanks Komakino and The Trooper for your answers.

I am running Sarge in a Buffalo LinkStation:

Code:

root@LINKSTATION:/home# uname -a

Linux LINKSTATION 2.4.20_mipsel_linkstation #88 2005Ç¯ 2·î 25Æü ¶âÍËÆü 20:17:00 JST mips GNU/Linux

And trying to install amule in the usual way:

Code:

root@LINKSTATION:/home# aptitude install amule

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree

Reading extended state information

Initializing package states... Done

Reading task descriptions... Done

Couldn't find any package matching "amule".  However, the following

packages contain "amule" in their description:

  nethack-x11 nethack-el nethack-qt nethack-gnome slashem-gtk slashem-x11

  slashem slashem-sdl nethack-console nethack nethack-lisp

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.

Writing extended state information... Done

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree

Reading extended state information

Initializing package states... Done

Reading task descriptions... Done

It seems amule is not in the sarge repositories so I've downloaded source files for aMule 2.0.3 and I am now in the middle of the ./configure - make - install process (which is running since 6 hours ago), I'll keep you informed with the results.

Thanks again for your help.

Ok, so I've finished compiling the aMule sources and, as I expected, it doesn't work.

I got this message when I did ./configure

Code:

  Configure script has finished system check.



  Configured aMule 2.0.3 for 'mipsel-unknown-linux'.



  aMule enabled options:



  **** aMule Core ****

  Prefix where aMule should be installed?                    /usr/bin/aMule

  Should aMule be compiled with i18n support?                yes

  Should aMule be compiled in debug mode?                    no

  Should aMule be compiled with profiling?                  no

  Should aMule be compiled with optimizations?              yes

  Should aMule be compiled with taskbar icon support?        yes

  Should aMule be compiled with old GTK taskbar icon?        no

  Should aMule be compiled with UTF-8 taskbar icon support?  no

  Should aMule be linked against patched gsocket?            no

  Should aMule monolithic application be built?              yes

  Should aMule daemon version be built?                      yes

  Should aMule remote gui be built? (EXPERIMENTAL)          no

  Crypto++ library/headers style?                            embedded



  **** aMule TextClient ****

  Should aMule Command Line Client be built?                yes

  Should aMule GUI Client be built?                          no



  **** aMule WebServer ****

  Should aMule WebServer be built?                          yes

  Should aMule WebServer GUI be built?                      yes



  **** aMule ED2K Links Handler ****

  Should aMule ED2K Links Handler be built?                  yes



  **** aMuleLinkCreator ****

  Should aMuleLinkCreator GUI version (alc) be built?        no

  Should aMuleLinkCreator for console (alcc) be built?      yes



  **** aMule Statistics ****

  Should C aMule Statistics (CAS) be built?                  no

  Should aMule GUI Statistics (wxCas) be built?              no



  **** General Libraries and Tools ****

  Should ccache support be enabled?                          yes

  Libraries aMule will use to build:

                                      wxWidgets            2.6.1

                                      crypto++              embedded

                                      libpng                1.2.8

                                      zlib                  1.2.2





 WARNING! gd-lib >= 2.0.0, or a functional gd.h (from gd-devel) not found.

 amuleweb will be compiled but file download progress bar images will NOT be generated.

 See the above error on gd check for solutions.

make, make install seemed to be ok and when I try to run aMule, I get this:

Code:

paquito@LINKSTATION:~/aMule-2.0.3$ /usr/bin/aMule/bin/amule

/usr/bin/aMule/bin/amule: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk_xrc-2.6.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After some googling and installing vi aptitude what I thought might be this lib, I've found that I already have it:

Code:



root@LINKSTATION:/usr/local/lib# ls -lsa

total 12204

  4 drwxr-xr-x  3 root staff    4096 Dec 11 09:21 .

  4 drwxr-sr-x  9 root staff    4096 Jul  4  2006 ..

 908 -rw-r--r--  1 root root  923768 Dec 11 09:21 libgd.a

  4 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root      855 Dec 11 09:21 libgd.la

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      14 Dec 11 09:21 libgd.so -> libgd.so.2.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      14 Dec 11 09:21 libgd.so.2 -> libgd.so.2.0.0

 616 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  624201 Dec 11 09:21 libgd.so.2.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      19 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base-2.6.so -> libwx_base-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      23 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_base-2.6.so.0.0.0

2208 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2254483 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      23 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base_net-2.6.so -> libwx_base_net-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      27 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base_net-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_base_net-2.6.so.0.0.0

 280 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  281864 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base_net-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      23 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base_xml-2.6.so -> libwx_base_xml-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      27 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base_xml-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_base_xml-2.6.so.0.0.0

  72 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    67569 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_base_xml-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      22 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_adv-2.6.so -> libwx_gtk_adv-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      26 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_adv-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_gtk_adv-2.6.so.0.0.0

 976 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  993717 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_adv-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      23 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_core-2.6.so -> libwx_gtk_core-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      27 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_core-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_gtk_core-2.6.so.0.0.0

5280 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  5392293 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_core-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      23 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_html-2.6.so -> libwx_gtk_html-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      27 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_html-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_gtk_html-2.6.so.0.0.0

 880 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  895426 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_html-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      24 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_media-2.6.so -> libwx_gtk_media-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      28 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_media-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_gtk_media-2.6.so.0.0.0

  8 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    7818 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_media-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      21 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_qa-2.6.so -> libwx_gtk_qa-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      25 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_qa-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_gtk_qa-2.6.so.0.0.0

 184 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  183879 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_qa-2.6.so.0.0.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      22 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_xrc-2.6.so -> libwx_gtk_xrc-2.6.so.0

  0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      26 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_xrc-2.6.so.0 -> libwx_gtk_xrc-2.6.so.0.0.0

 776 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  787549 Dec 11 08:13 libwx_gtk_xrc-2.6.so.0.0.0

  4 drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    4096 Dec 11 08:13 wx

I've also tried to copy libwx_gtk_xrc-2.6.so.0.0.0 to /lib, but aMule still doesn't run

After some big help from the guys of aMule forum this is what you have to do in order to run aMule in a Sarge machine.

Download and unpack wxWidgets and aMule

$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w...-2.8.10.tar.gz
$ wget http://download.berlios.de/amule/aMule-2.2.6.tar.bz2

$ tar xvzf wxGTK-2.8.10.tar.gz
$ tar xvjf aMule-2.2.6.tar.bz2

As we won't be using GUI with aMule, we compile wxWidgets without GUI dependencies

$ ./configure --disable-gui --enable-unicode --without-subdirs --without-expat
$ make

as root

# make install
# ldconfig

and then we compile aMule

$ ./configure --disable-monolithic --with-toolkit=base --enable-amule-daemon --enable-amulecmd --enable-webserver
$ make

as root

# make install

If, at some point, we get this error

checking for crypto++ version >= 5.1... configure: error:
Could not find cryptopp header file "cryptlib.h".
Please check if the path "/usr" is valid.

we just have to install libcrypto++-dev with aptitude

If we get this error when executing amuled

/usr/local/bin$ amuled --ec-config
amuled: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

we need to do

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:"/usr/local/lib"

or add the line /usr/lib to the file /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig

In order to run amuled as a service we need to make an script and place it in /etc/init.d/ and set it to run at start up with

update-rc.d amule defaults

This is my amuled script

Code:

#!/bin/bash

NAME=$(basename "$0")

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/amuled

DESC=amuled

USER=paquito #A user who already ran amule once to configure it.



test -x "$DAEMON" || exit 0



case "$1" in

 start)

  echo -n "Starting $DESC: "

    su "$USER" -c "$(printf "%q -f" "$DAEMON" )"

  echo "$NAME."

  ;;

 stop)

  echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "

    killall --quiet "$DAEMON"

  echo "$NAME."

  ;;

 restart|force-reload)

  echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "

    killall --quiet "$DAEMON"

  sleep 1

    su "$USER" -c "$(printf "%q -f" "$DAEMON" )"

  ;;

 *)

  printf "Usage: %q {start|stop|restart|force-reload}\n" "$0" >&2

  exit 1

  ;;

esac



exit 0

When you have installed succesfully amule you have to configure External Connections

amuled --ec-config

You will be asked to write a password, this will also create the amule configuration file in /home/<<my_user>>/.aMule/amule.conf in which you enable amuleweb ([WebServer] Enabled=1), change your incoming and tmp directories, etc

I copied some of my credits and data aMule files from C:\Users\<<my_user>>\AppData\Roaming\aMule to /home/<<my_user>>/.aMule/ (be careful not to overwrite amule.conf)

The password for amuleweb is set with amuleweb --admin-ass=your_password

And I think that's all, again big thanks to the people at amule.org forums (specially wuischke) and to their wiki.

Good work!.
Thanks for coming back and posting the solution.

I know this thread is old, but I come here to say thank you to user @bocabits for his post. It has been helpful for me.

Cheers!