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Title: aMule installed, but unresponsive
Post by: Matia on December 01, 2008, 05:25:14 AM

Like from subject... I installed aMule, it shows up in Applications, but when I try to run it, nothing happens. Whether I click on the icon or I launch it from the terminal, nothing happens (no error messages, nothing). I've searched the faq and a made a brief research on this forum, but I only found another similar topic, which unfortunately got no replies. I'm new to Ubuntu (only started using it a few hours ago), so this might be a very stupid problem... I apologize in advance, if that's the case.

Title: Re: aMule installed, but unresponsive
Post by: wuischke on December 01, 2008, 01:35:15 PM

Hi Matia,

Please open a terminal emulator window and type "amule". What does it print when you hit enter to execute the command?

kind regards

Title: Re: aMule installed, but unresponsive
Post by: Matia on December 01, 2008, 04:26:57 PM

Thanks for the help, wuischke. :)

The terminal emulator window printed this:

amule: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried googling the missing library, and looked for it in Synaptic (eh, it was worth a try), but to no avail.

The following commands also didn't work:
- ln /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so
- sudo ln /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.so

I read somewhere that there was a bug in an old version of aMule regarding libbfd-2.17, but that it should have been fixed with the next release (which I believe is the one I installed?).

Title: Re: aMule installed, but unresponsive
Post by: wuischke on December 01, 2008, 07:15:19 PM

First of all: These are not aMule bugs, but distribution problems. Mostly due to incompatible packages or packaging errors. That's a difference. ;)

Anyway: The most current version of Ubuntu has the most recent version of aMule in their repositories. (although there might be crypto++ problems, i.e. crashes)

How did you install aMule? Is your system fully updated?

Title: Re: aMule installed, but unresponsive
Post by: Matia on December 01, 2008, 11:52:35 PM

I installed it through Applications -> Add/Remove. As for the system, I use v8.10 (intrepid).

Title: Re: aMule installed, but unresponsive
Post by: Stu Redman on December 02, 2008, 12:34:37 AM

Just tried getting it on Intrepid:

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2008-12-02 00:27:35:  - This is aMule 2.2.2 using wxGTK2 v2.8.8 based on eMule.
2008-12-02 00:27:35:    Running on Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686Looks fine.
Thats how the libbfd looks:

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martin@hardy:~$ ls -la /usr/lib/libbf*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  948152 2008-10-09 16:33 /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.93.20081009.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6878408 2008-10-09 16:33 /usr/lib/libbfd.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 2008-11-03 14:27 /usr/lib/libbfd.so -> libbfd-2.18.93.20081009.so
martin@hardy:~$
Same for you ?

Title: Re: aMule installed, but unresponsive
Post by: Matia on December 02, 2008, 02:12:12 AM

Prompted by Stu Redman's post, I uninstalled aMule, and as soon as I did that, a window popped up saying there was a system update. The update installed aMule-common. After that, I tried reinstalling aMule from Add/Remove, but I got an error message regarding conflicting packages, suggesting me to resolve it through Synaptic... I didn't really know what that meant, but reinstalling aMule through Synaptic apparently did the trick. Well, it opened, at least! ;D