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kikinovak Guest
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:19 pm Post subject: kazaa on linux? |
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Hi,
I just blew my Win XP partition to byte heaven, without the slightest remorse.
Well, almost.
Since I'm an avid p2p mp3 file sharer, I tested just about every p2p program that was out there, and yes, I felt the end of Audiogalaxy like getting hit, in the stomach
After fiddling around with all these nifty file sharing programs, I sticked to Kazaa. Not because it's the best, no. It's awfully loaded with adware, spyware, the whole load. But because it's used by literally *millions* of people eager to share their mp3's. This was about the only chance to find some rare Charles Mingus, or Chick Corea playing Bartok live and unreleased. (I like Nine Inch Nails too, don't worry...)
Well well. I know there is a Windows emulator called Wine. I never tried it out (because until yesterday I never had to).
What do you think? Is there a chance that the Windows version of Kazaa would run on Wine (or some other emulator?)
Suggestions *very* appreciated.
Thanks,
Niki |
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Moving from Networking & Security to Desktop Environments.
Though this is a P2P app, the subject fits more with Desktop Environments than networking. There are no networking or security issues addressed. _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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mikaelu n00b
Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Sweden/Hjo
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:29 pm Post subject: Kazaa |
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Well, I've run Kazaa Lite with Wine. It works, sort of... |
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MacMasta Guru
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 545 Location: Anchorage, AK
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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It runs in vmware...
~Mac~ |
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HeadHolio Guru
Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 445
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:43 pm Post subject: Try MLDonkey |
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I like to download movies so I use MLDonkey combined with "www.sharereactor.com". Ive downloaded a few MP3's and OGG's but I don't think my stuff was anywhere as rare as yours. Definately give it a try though. Maybe I'll read up on making ebuilds and create one for MLDonkey. |
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Wedge_ Advocate
Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 3614 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Kazaa Lite works pretty well under WINE. Read this article if you can't get it working. It does take up a sizeable chunk of CPU time though, around 15-25% on my system. |
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/dev/null n00b
Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 31 Location: Earth, last time I checked.
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Is there any way to install Kazaa Lite without any original Win95/98/Me dlls? |
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kikinovak Guest
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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<sigh of relief>
Well, thanks for all these hints. I'll give the wine + kazaa lite combination a try as soon as my openoffice build is finished... maybe a year or two? <mooooooohahahahaha emoticon missing>
BTW, what about rethinking some terminology? Like on-the-snail compile? <grin>
But seriously. The Gentoo community makes up an important part of this distributions' charm, really. Using Gentoo since two days now (not counting two rather humiliating install attempts), I'll *definitely* stick to it. System works fine ( = euphemism), doc is excellent, people in the forums are nice and helpful.
Peace & love,
Niki |
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TripKnot Apprentice
Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 213
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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gift is an OpenFasttrack client similar to the one kazaa uses. You may want to try that. There is also an mldonkey ebuild thats been masked. |
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kraaij n00b
Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 66 Location: Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:49 pm Post subject: giFT |
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I agree with the above, you should really try giFT and giftcurs or kift. Excellent..... |
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/dev/null n00b
Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 31 Location: Earth, last time I checked.
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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TripKnot wrote: | gift is an OpenFasttrack client similar to the one kazaa uses. You may want to try that. There is also an mldonkey ebuild thats been masked. |
Looks quite interesting, thanks for the tip. |
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azambuja Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 257 Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 1:57 am Post subject: |
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ive followed the site instructions to use kazaa lite with wine...
put the required dlls in c:\windows\system...
the program is running fine, but it cant connect!!!
any clues?
thanx/cheers _________________ "Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play" |
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Gulliver Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 146 Location: Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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giFT is really nice!
I use it with giFTcurs, because kift failes to compile
But next week I'll reinstall my system (hopefully with Gentoo 1.4 final) and perhaps it'll work then...
So give it a try. Also it has only about 600 users online you can find _very_ much!
Have fun! _________________ Many greetings from Germany,
Julian |
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azambuja Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 257 Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Gulliver wrote: | giFT is really nice!
I use it with giFTcurs, because kift failes to compile
Also it has only about 600 users online you can find _very_ much!
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if just emerged kiFT and it worked fine... the only problem is that you have to use a CVS version of giFT, otherwise it wont work.
Also, 600 user very much??? have you ever used a kazaa network??? theres like millions of users connected...
im installing CVS to try kiFT, im also trying to run kazaa lite with wine, and also trying to configure vmware... all this to run a kazaa program in linux and dont have to use windows !
cheers _________________ "Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play" |
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Lockup Guru
Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430
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Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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dunno why, but giFT just doesnt work for me
the kift vers. even with cvs of gift simply wont load, and the "normal" gift just cant connect at all |
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Gulliver Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 146 Location: Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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azambuja wrote: | Also, 600 user very much??? have you ever used a kazaa network??? theres like millions of users connected... |
I think you missunderstood me
Read my sentence again:
Gulliver wrote: | Also it has only about 600 users online you can find _very_ much! |
I don't say that 600 users are much. 600 is very less. But I found everything I searched for, until now. So i wanted to say:
These 600 users share very much, against what you have thousands (or millions) of "freeloaders" which don't share any files.
ok? _________________ Many greetings from Germany,
Julian |
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azambuja Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 257 Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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ive been trying some programs like dctc, and giFT...
yeah, youre right, sorry i misunderstood you...
in dctc for example, you have to share a minimum of 2gb or sometimes 15gb, 50gb to connect... thats a lot different from the kazaa network, which doesnt require a minimum of gb to share.
sorry
thanx/cheers _________________ "Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play" |
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Gulliver Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 146 Location: Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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no problem
what would be the world without problems?
a boring group of creatures!
_________________ Many greetings from Germany,
Julian |
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grandpajive n00b
Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 46
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Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 12:17 am Post subject: re: good p2p networks... |
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I've found Lopster to be a decent program... it connects to the WinMX network and seems pretty good. _________________ -gj |
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azambuja Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 257 Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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i still cant run kazaa on wine...
i copied all the required dlls...
the program runs "fine" (loads all the gui and stuff) but it doesnt connect, it keeps trying to...
nuttynutts told me hes having the exact same problem...
if anyone could help us
thanx/cheers _________________ "Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play" |
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azambuja Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 257 Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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yes, yes, yes, here we go!
kazaa lite is now working on my linux!!!
ive removed the installed version on my windows partition...
then i copied the setup file to a directory in my linux partition (/home/azambuja/kazaalite for example)...
then i ran the setup with wine...
then i installed it in the LINUX partition...
now it works just fine!!!
cheers _________________ "Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play" |
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bonto n00b
Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 49
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Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 5:27 am Post subject: blubster |
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im gonna try gift or kift after i post this, but what im really lookin for is a blubster replacement (altho audiogalaxy was my baby) can gift do the things audiogalaxy or to a lesser extent blubster coul do? I'm into irish music and irish punk and kazaa never had much of that.... i dunno what im sayin... _________________ Never sneeze on an angry rhino... |
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jconover Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 31 Jul 2002 Posts: 87 Location: USA
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azambuja Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 257 Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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i used limewire in gentoo and it works fine
cheers _________________ "Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play" |
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bonto n00b
Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 49
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 7:04 pm Post subject: Limewire |
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I'mnot a fan of the gnutella network, bad files and veery few download completions, giFT is ok but still no agsatellite or blubster _________________ Never sneeze on an angry rhino... |
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