Installing aMule on my MyBook

libPNG is an open source project to develop and maintain the reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files.

# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.2.24.tar.gz
# tar -xzvf libpng-1.2.24.tar.gz
# cd libpng-1.2.24
# ./configure
# make
# make install

libGD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats.

# wget http://www.libgd.org/releases/gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
# tar -xzvf gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
# cd gd-2.0.35
# ./configure
# make
# make install

wxWidgets provides a single, easy-to-use API/Framework for writing applications (GUI applications supported) on multiple platforms and languages.

# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.7.tar.gz
# tar -xzvf wxWidgets-2.8.7.tar.gz
# cd wxWidgets-2.8.7
# ./configure --disable-gui --disable-gtktest
# make
# make install

# wget http://download.berlios.de/amule/aMule-2.1.3.tar.bz2
# tar -jxvf aMule-2.1.3.tar.bz2
# cd aMule-2.1.3
# ./configure --enable-amulecmd --enable-webserver --disable-monolithic --enable-amule-daemon --disable-backtrace --disable-debug --enable-optimise 
# make 
# make install 

Compile errors in /src/libs/common/MuleDebug.cpp :
Put include execinfo.h and functions backtrace and backtrace_symbols (line 291) in comment,
bad use of compile switches (disable-backtrace) !

//      if ((num_entries = backtrace(bt_array, 100)) < 0) {
//              fprintf(stderr, "* Could not generate backtrace\n");
//              return wxEmptyString;
//      }

//      if ((bt_strings = backtrace_symbols(bt_array, num_entries)) == NULL) {
//              fprintf(stderr, "* Could not get symbol names for backtrace\n");
//              return wxEmptyString;
//      }

/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-uclibc/3.4.2/../../../libbfd.a(cache.o): In function `bfd_open_file':
cache.c:(.text+0x314): undefined reference to `unlink_if_ordinary'
==> to solve install GCC 4.2.2 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/ --> seems to be binutils-2.9\bfd\cache.c: problem

# wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.16.tar.gz
# tar -xzvf binutils-2.16.tar.gz
# ./configure --disable-nls
# make
# make install

Go to the path where aMule was installed, which in our case is /usr/local/bin and run ./amuled.
When this is done, the configuration file ~/.aMule/amule.conf is created.

# cd /usr/local/bin
# ./amuled

Quit the daemon again.
Create a password for amule-daemon.
Use the command md5sum to create a MD5-string of a password.
Find and replace the following lines in ~/.aMule/amule.conf.

# echo -n your-password | md5sum
  56f491c56340a6fa5c158863c6bfb39f

  [webserver]
  Enabled=1
  Password=56f491c56340a6fa5c158863c6bfb39f   <-- MD5 of the password you wish to use.
  
  [ExternalConnect]
  AcceptExternalConnections=1                 <-- To let aMule listen to external connections. 
  ECPassword=56f491c56340a6fa5c158863c6bfb39f <-- MD5 of the password you wish to use. 

The program amuleweb is used to get the web interface running.
To create a configuration file for this program, the following parameters are used, where
--password is the password used in the amule daemon configuration and
--admin-pass is the password to access the web interface itself.

# ./amuleweb --write-config --host=localhost --password=password --admin-pass=anotherpassword

Then you just have to start amuleweb, and you're done. Be aware that the amule daemon must be running.

# ./amuleweb

Although starting aMuleWeb by enabling it in aMule's preferences is the preferred method, you can also run aMuleWeb together with aMuled as as services by means of an init.d script.

Here is an example:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/amuled
WEB=/usr/local/bin/amuleweb
NAME=amuled
DESC=amuled
RUNAMULE=yes
USER=root

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

# Include amule defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/amule ] ; then
    . /etc/default/amule
fi
if [ "$RUNAMULE" != "yes" ] ; then
    echo "Amule not to be started. Edit /etc/default/amule first."
    exit 1
fi

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
       $DAEMON --full-daemon
    echo "$NAME."
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
       killall amuleweb
       killall amuled
    echo "$NAME."
    ;;
  restart|force-reload)
    echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
       killall amuleweb
       killall amuled
    sleep 1
       su $USER -c "$DAEMON -f"
       while ! netstat -l -n -t | grep 4712 ; do sleep 1 ; done
       su $USER -c "$WEB --quiet"
    echo "$NAME."
    ;;
  *)
    N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
    echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0