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Manual Installation

To install aMule you can either install it from scratch, as described in Compiling From Sources or use RPMs which will speed things up a lot, as described in the Installing using RPMs section.

NOTE: This HowTo uses wxWidgets 2.4.2 and Crypto++ 5.1, as an example, however aMule can also be compiled using wxWidgets 2.5.x and versions of Crypto++ newer than 5.1.

Compiling From Sources

WARNING: Make sure you have no copies of wxWidgets installed. If you already have wxWidgets installed, check How to uninstall wxWidgets before starting a new installation. If you still have problems after this, then check if wx is installed twice, since that's a common compilation and runtime problem.

NOTE: In wxWidgets 2.5.1 (and only in that version), wxBase is not distributed as a separate tarball. So if you are going to compile wxGTK 2.5.1, skip the first step (wxBase compilation).

Step 1: wxGTK

• download wxGTK ->
  • wxGTK-2.4.2.tar.gz

• compile wxGTK ->
  • tar -zxvf wxGTK-2.4.2.tar.gz
    • cd wxGTK-2.4.2
    • ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gtk2 --with-gtk && make

• as root:
  • make install
  • ldconfig

Step 2: wxBase

• download wxBase ->
  • wxBase-2.4.2.tar.gz

• compile wxBase ->
  • tar -zxvf wxBase-2.4.2.tar.gz
  • cd wxBase-2.4.2
  • ./configure --prefix=/usr && make

• as root:
  • make install
  • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config /usr/bin/wx-config
  • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxbase-2.4-config /usr/bin/wxbase-config
  • ldconfig

Step 3: Crypto++

• download libcrypto ->
  • crypto-5.2.1.tar.bz2

• compile libcrypto ->
  • tar xvjf crypto-5.2.1.tar.bz2
  • cd crypto-5.2.1
  • make

If you have problems compiling with older gcc versions, it can be due to stray DOS newlines in some files. Invoke

file * | grep CRLF | while read file rest; do dos2unix ${file%:}; done

to convert them to UNIX newlines (bash syntax).

• as root:
  • cp libcryptopp.a /usr/lib/
  • mkdir /usr/include/cryptopp
  • cp *.h /usr/include/cryptopp/
  • ldconfig

Step 4: aMule

• download latest aMule version ->
  • latest aMule

• compile aMule ->
  • tar -zxvf aMule-X.X.X.tar.gz (replace X with the right version number..)
  • cd aMule-X.X.X
  • ./configure --disable-debug --enable-optimise && make

• as root:
  • make install

• run aMule as user from your console by typing -> amule

Installing using RPMs

Step 1: wxGTK

• download wxGTK and wxGTK-devel ->
  • wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm   wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm

• install wxGTK ->
  • as root:
    • rpm -Uvh wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm
    • ldconfig

Step 2: wxBase

• download wxBase ->
  • wxBase-2.4.2-1.i586.rpm

• install wxBase ->
  • as root:
    • rpm -Uvh wxBase-2.4.2-1.i586.rpm
    • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config /usr/bin/wx-config
    • ln -sf /usr/bin/wxbase-2.4-config /usr/bin/wxbase-config
    • ldconfig

Step 3. Crypto++

• download libcrypto ->
  • RedHat & SuSE: libcryptopp-5.2.1-1.i586-RH-SuSE.rpm and libcryptopp-devel-5.2.1-1.i586-RH-SuSE.rpm
  • FC: libcryptopp-5.2.1-1.i586-FC.rpm and libcryptopp-devel-5.2.1-1.i586-FC.rpm
  • MDK: libcryptopp5-5.1-2mdk.i586.rpm and libcryptopp5-devel-5.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
• as root:
  • rpm -Uvh the-above-downloaded-package.rpm

Step 4: aMule

• download latest aMule version ->
  • latest aMule

• install aMule ->
  • as root:
    • rpm -Uvh aMule-X.X.X-1.iX86-X.rpm (replace X with the right version number..)

• run aMule as user from your console by typing -> amule