Mldonkey - multi-network file-sharing client
Originally by marge and frontalot from linkstationwiki.org
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Background
MLDonkey[1] is an open source, free software multi-network peer-to-peer application that supports the BitTorrent protocol[2] . It is also the name of the peer-to-peer overlay network that application uses. Originally a Linux client for the eDonkey protocol[3] MLdonkey is written in the Ocaml programming language and licensed under the GPL. The application separates the user interface (which can be a web browser, telnet, or a third-party GUI application)[4] and the code that interacts with the peer-to-peer networks[5][6][7].
MLDonkey supports the following network protocols, either partially or completely:
Installation
FreeLink
You may need to use the Unstable (Debian) branch:
- Get access to packages from the Debian unstable branch
- Then install mldonkey by
apt-get install mldonkey-server
ARM9
apt-get
apt-get update # update APT-Repository apt-get install mldonkey-server # install MLDonkey
compile latest SVN
If you would like to have the latest SVN-Version (better speed etc.) then you should do the following steps. But be careful: Currently the latest SVN-Version is very unstable on the ARM-System. It'll freeze after a few minutes. There's a patch (svn.debian.org [1]) which should fix the problem but i didn't have success, it's still unstable.
cd /mnt/disk1/share/source/ apt-get install ssh cvs patch autoconf gcc g++ libc-dev make zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libgd2-noxpm-dev cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/mldonkey co -P mldonkey ./configure make cp ./mlnet /root/.mldonkey/
Problems (both ways)
There are problems within the ARM9-Version. After some starts the mlnet-Service will shut down automatically with an errormessage. The Problem is caused by a file called mlnet_strings.EN_ANSI_X3.4-1968. I've found a workaround: You have to delete the file before mlnet starts. Mlnet will create the file as soon as it is started.
I've created a file called run_mldonkey in the mldonkey-dir (/root/.mldonkey/):
#! /bin/sh # cd /root/.mldonkey/ rm /root/.mldonkey/mlnet_strings.EN_ANSI_X3.4-1968 mlnet > /dev/null 2>&1 &
After that i have created a symbolic link within the /etc/rc2.d-Directory to get it automatically started. First tests were successfully, mldonkey seems to run stable
OpenLink
PowerPC
This project aims to offer the latest MLDonkey P2P client and additional utilities precompiled and packaged for the PPC LinkStation. This release is compiled without GUI support. See http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/ for more information. You may download the latest version from the downloads area.
ppc-mldonkey-2.5.30.16–1
- mldonkey-2.5.30.16
- ed2k_hash
- make_torrent
MIPSel
Older binaries + packages are available here. But there was feedback that they did no work properly because of the missing libmagic. So you would have to install the development tools which should fix this dependancy.
mkdir /mnt/hda/temp cd /mnt/hda/temp wget http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0025690/mips-binaries/mldonkey_mips-2.7.6.tar.gz tar -xzvf mldonkey_mips-2.7.6.tar.gz ./install.sh
Compile from Source
You can find the latest sources of mldonkey at the mldonkey project at sourceforge. First install the development tools.
- Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS
- Then mldonkey can be compiled by:
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mldonkey/mldonkey-2.7.7.tar.bz2 tar -xjf mldonkey-*.tar.bz2 cd mldonkey-* ./configure --enable-batch --disable-gui make make install
you will need a startscript (/etc/init.d/mldonkey) for mldonkey.
#! /bin/sh export USER="root" NAME=mldonkey INSTALLEDPATH=/root/.mldonkey start() { su - $USER -c"/usr/local/bin/mlnet&" } stop() { su - $USER -c"kill -15 `cat $INSTALLEDPATH/mlnet.pid`" su - $USER -c"sleep 5" } case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting mldonkey: " start ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping mldonkey " stop ;; restart) echo -n "Restarting mldonkey " stop start ;; force) echo -n "Forcing start of mldonkey " rm $INSTALLEDPATH/config_files_space.tmp rm $INSTALLEDPATH/mlnet.pid start ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart|force}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
you can download it directly from here here.
cd /etc/init.d wget http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0025690/scripts/mldonkey chmod 755 mldonkey
Additional Info
mldonkey should be runnable now by executing
/etc/init.d/mldonkey start
I had to add .sh That is what I use:
/etc/init.d/mldonkey.sh start
if you want mldonkey to be started automatically at startup:
FreeLink
ln -s /etc/init.d/mldonkey /etc/rc2.d/S99mldonkey
OpenLink
ln -s /etc/init.d/mldonkey /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99mldonkey
References
- ↑ Wikipedia: MLDonkey
- ↑ Comparison of BitTorrent software
- ↑ Comparison of eDonkey software
- ↑ Sancho (n): the premier graphical user interface for p2p cores
- ↑ MLDonkey/Mulus File Archive
- ↑ The official MLDonkey Community and News page
- ↑ MLDonkey Project Wiki - the Official Wiki of MLDonkey