mldonkey-gui and gtk-gnutella

[Brian Pack]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 05:02 pm, Ben Edwards wrote:
> Not having much luck getting file sharing software working under
> Ubuntu ;).
>
> First I tried gtk-gnutella and it seems to run but the search box is
> always greyed out, even after it connected to the required 3 peers and I
> waited 1/2c hour.
>
> I then tried mldonkey.  I installed mldonkey-server and mldonkey-gui OK
> but cant work out how to run mldonkey-gui ;).
>
> Any ideas or shall I go back to windows for this type of thing ;).

Mldonkey-gui is just a client, similar to Apollon for giFT. The actual grunt 
work is being done by mlnet. Mlnet can either be a service enabled at boot, 
or called up separately after login.

What I've done is set up a .mldonkey folder in my home directory, then 
navigate there to run mlnet -daemon. That starts the service, and you can 
call up the client of your choice. I'm partial to Kmldonkey.

Once it's run for the first time, it will set up it's config files. Start with 
downloads.ini for your main settings. The next most important config file is 
donkey.ini. The config files have documentation inside them, so editing them 
shouldn't be to difficult.

A word of advice. Mlnet likes to drop it's config files and folders in 
whatever directory it's run from. It's possible to have multiple configs, 
download lists, and incoming folders. If you want your results consistent, 
run from a consistent location.

Also, the stock mlnet in the Ubuntu package is slightly obsolete. Becase of 
it's age, most servers reject connections with it. You'll get a 'your IP is 
blacklisted' error. I compiled my own mlnet from the latest mldonkey source, 
and I don't get those errors. All of those servers will now connect.

Hope that's enough to get you started.

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