Hi, If you are using gtk-gnutella in Debian stable you may be aware that the program is no longer functional. Worse you'll be actively performing an active on other participants on the network.
While I won't point out the futility of shipping stable but non-functional software, I'll instead try to explain how you can obtain a version that *is* functional. I was hoping to be able to point most Debian users to prebuilt binaries, but there exists no facility within Debian that allows for updates to a package in stable in order to keep it functional. Instead, please follow these instructions: mkdir ~/gtk-gnutella cd ~/gtk-gnutella (as root): apt-get install build-essential wget http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b.orig.tar.gz wget http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b-1.diff.gz wget http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b-1.dsc dpkg-source gtk-gnutella_0.96b-1.dsc cd gtk-gnutella-0.96b dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc The last step may fail and complain about a number of other packages you need to install, if so, '(as root) apt-get install <packages>' and then try again. At the end you should have a viable gtk-gnutella servent which no longer damages the network and also provides you with increased functionality (IPv6 access) and security (TLS). Please feel free to send me email if you have any difficulties. Regards, Anand PS: This will also work for Ubuntu and Mephis users who have contacted me privately. -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --"
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