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[sabin]

Ohayo friends

Before I start telling my life i'll get to the main point : could someone offer RPMs of older aMule versions to install for Mandriva 2005 LE, pretty please  :baby:


Now, the long version  

I have a wxgtk problem with the new versions of aMule. I still have plenty of things to read in the forums before I can find how to solve my problem, if it can be solved (honestly, I'm not sure I'll be able to, it's just been three months I left windowsXP, and as we say, power users are the one who suffer the most when they decide to migrate.) But I don't have all day to read those informations alas, work and family takes the most of my hours. And before I can solve that bloody "relocation etcetera" problem while finding how to install wx 2.6 without a Mandriva package (compiling tarball failing too, sigh), i'd like a faster temporary solution.

I had originally rpm-installed aMule version 1.2 or 1.5, I'm not sure anymore, installed thanks to PLF (unofficial MDK-MDV rpm source), and it worked pretty fine.
The hell began when I tried to update amule to the latest version, wxwidget+wxgtk hell <_<

So i'd want to re-install now the aMule version that worked neatly from the beginning. Which is 1.2 or 1.5 (sorry I forgot ^^). I'm pretty confident that those older versions, depending on older wx versions, might work for me again.

I guess the RPMs for this old version are bound to exist somewhere. Alas, on the CVS, I just checked, no mandriva or MDK RPMs exist.
Please, couldn't someone place them online again, for my sake ? Mandriva 2005 LE please, or at least, the source ;o)

Thanks if you can help me ^____^

(oh, btw a side note, your webpage offers to download MDK-2005-SE rpms for 2.0.3 and just-previous 2.0.2 version, but they link to a FTP server with only version 2.0.3, i tought i'd skip a note btw)

[stefanero]

heho :=)

1st
you can get every version which ever was at sourceforge check out
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amule/

if the files you are looking for is not there, we never had it offically

2nd
you cannot compile amule 1.2.... with wxGTK-2.6, they are not compatible. If you want the great benefits of wxGTK-2.6 you have to use some 2.0rc version at least.

3rd.
whats teh problem with 2.0.3? and why cant you use that?

stefanero

[sabin]

Thanks for the kind reply and for tipping me to check on the sf.net files' folder

I had plenty of problems so I wanted an old RPM... But alas there wasn't any Mandriva 2005 LE RPMs available on the CVS, argh !
So I had to resume solving compilation-etcetera problems.

My problems were many. If you find it fun, a small history :
- rpm installation failing probably because of the wx-mandrake preconfigured packages. Your faqs indicated to uninstall all distro-custom wx versions. I found that those wx thingies also compromised compilation (well, the ./configure step) of the wx version taken from the official website, so good riddance. That was my "relocation" error.
- then, ./configure for the official wxgtk (why the hell call it wxwidget if its file name is wxgtk <_<) failed because I thought having gcc and gcc-devel was enough, especially with devel inside. "Too bad my yound padawan", Obi would have said : the gcc-c++ package was something apart, that I still had to install. That was my "No case-insensitive string comparison function found".
- Then, for configuring-installing wxwidgets, I first didn't read the readme files (I thought that configure+make+make install would be enough as always), skipped a thing, and obviously amule wouldn't want a cropped wx.
- Then compiling amule would fail because "libwx_gtk2_xrc-2.5.so missing", reason being there, it's too hard to summarize, it's about adding a path to the .so file
- and finaaaaaaaaly, compiling of amule worked

Quite an adventure, I wish there were working mandriva packages, heh ^^

I tried with a Mandriva 2005 LE package for version from contrib, and it got a "missing signature : file not found error". It found the missing dependancies (wx2.6 and wxgtku2.6) and installed them, but yet all the same there was the original "relocation" error.

I should document myself on how to create an RPM myself once you've got a source compiled and installed, if it's easy (to make it auto-including the dependancies !), I guess I could make life simpler for Mandriva users ^^

[Kry]

But you learned a lot

[wardevil]

Have you tried this ones?
http://linfreak.zapto.org

Cheers....

[sabin]

Hiya Wardevil

I'm sorry, but I have now compiled and installed amule from the source, so for the moment I don't need anymore RPMs.

So i'm sorry but your home-made RPMs come a slightly too late !

That's too bad, because that is really a nice thing of you, providing an RPM, and i'm thankful for it

[wardevil]

No problem....I started to build some rpms because i dont like having amule and wx files all over my hdd and cant uninstall them....well....it is possible by hand but in a rpm i can install and uninstall whenever i want....it just keep my instalattion clean.....


Cheers......