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Revision as of 10:57, 29 July 2004

by Mike (servnov)

Installing aMule on Slackware


1) Download wxBase and wxGTK sources (.tar.gz packages) from http://www.amule-project.net or http://www.amule.org

NOTE: you will need root access or equivalent to complete aMule install.

2) INSTALL:

tar -xzvf wxBase*
cd wxBase*
./configure
make
make install
tar -xzvf wxGTK*
cd wxGTK*
./configure
make
make install
Grab pre-built Slackware package from linuxpackages.net.
IMPORTANT: You need to have installed pkgtools with Slackware (this is done by default).
installpkg aMule-2.0.0rc5-i686-2.tgz (or whatever current version is)
That's all!
Type amule in a shell to lauch or in KDE (similar in GNOME) go to Kstart->Internet->aMule

3) UNINSTALL:

removepkg aMule (should work without version, etc.)
Then if you want get a newer aMule*.tgz version as installpkg again.

Hope this helps.

Catch me on IRC at irc.freenode.com channel #amule nick servnov

Final note


Building aMule itself from source (i.e. NOT from installpkg aMule*.tgz) usually causes many problems in Slackware, Knoppix and a few other distros. Known possible problems:

Enjoy the hard work aMule developers have done and continue to do!


Just remember you will need wxBase and wxGTK installed even when using Slackware package.