Hi, can anyone suggest me some good peer to peer programs for Mandrake 9.1

This has been asked so many times. Utilize the search feature of this site. Anyways, mldonkey.

http://www.lazyadmins.org/~justin/p2p/

yeah remember to search - it's always there -

look into giFT and giFTCurs

Use Limewire!
If you have a 2.4 kernel, i will not recomend it (The kernel developers have made a bug there crash Limewire and other Java apps). if you are using a kernel below the 2.4, ex. 2.3 then it runs fine!

Yeah Limewire works fine on Mandrake 9.1 but if you like to compile from the source try Gtk-Gnutella because of the Java bug mentioned above http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/

yeah I just installed gift and giFTcurs - went well - downloads music great.
I got 577 hits for Moby so Im getting some great results.
speeds are normal for p2p.
BASIC INSTRUCTIONS
this is what you do - get these packages [or more recent ones depending on date as @ Oct 2 2003:
1)
a) gift-0.11.4.tar.gz [client]
b) giFTcurs-0.6.1.tar.gz [front end]
c) gift-openft-0.2.1.1.tar.gz [openFT protocol/plugin]
d) gift-gnutella-0.0.7.tar.gz [gnutella protocol/plugin]
2)
gunzip 'em individually:
gunzip gift_name_of_package.tar.gz
3)
untar 'em individually:
tar -xvf gift_name_of_package.tar
4)
now you'll have a folder for each package
I recommend now reading the README's and INSTALL's [all the text files] for each one so you know what to expect.
now
Start with the client then frontend then protocols~
go into the folder
run the
./configure
make
make install

~Do this for each for each package.

5)
~if all went well installing each package~
run the:
gift-setup
~follow it's instructions thru setting up everything - press 1 to take it out of default mode [as it explains if you dont it will consider you as not having run the gift-setup] hit enter to accept default values if desired - remember to share [this is what it's all about] - be SURE to type in OpenFT:Gnutella [spelling???] to avail of both networks. I went with the defaults on the protocols for the most part.
~Basically READ IT properly.
6)
type in a console:
giftd
~ it should now be running [nb: give it a few seconds to startup properly].
7)
start another console and type:
giFTcurs
~ it should now be running
8)
a) learn to use it!!!
b) DOWNLOAD!!!
c) SHARE!!!

~COMPLETE~

NB if you make any choices in setup that dont work you can re-run the gift-setup again and NOT SAVE the previous values.

Will the RPM of gift work as well?

did'nt try it. most likely it will.

I've received this error during more than one install and was hoping you could tell me how to resolve it.....

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Thanks.

Looks like you need to install gcc, the Gnu C compiler. It should be on the CD's for your distribution of Linux. You'll need to install it as an RPM as you won't be able to install one C compiler without another to compile it.

Ok, thanks. I found a bunch of gcc and c++ RPMs on the CD, and when I tried to install any of them, it said they were already installed....So, as root, I moved all four of the directories listed above into a new directory /usr/share/gift, thinking that maybe I couldn't install within my home directory, but I still get the same thing. Does anyone know of the exact package name or if there's a specific place in the "$PATH" where it needs to be installed? Thanks again.

Where are the downloaded files...????

otherwise, everyth seem to work great...

Thanks