gtk-gnutella sucks?
 

I just installed gtk-gnutella 0.96.6 stable. I tried to use it but it can't find anything, the two hosts in the list also show <none>, yet they are both connected.

Does anyone know whats going on with this crap?

My version is 0.98.2 (2011-12-30), but is the MacOSX version. It seems the GTK-G. blog is a little out of date. The latest release is 0.98.2; gtk-gnutella - The Graphical Unix Gnutella Client Download page. If you are using an out-of-date version, you will find it difficult to connect because of an internal program policy. Looks like your version is over a year old. oops :eek:

I find that GTk-G. can be slow to connect sometimes, especially if not used for a while but usually does connect well after a while. Mine just connected to 5 hosts.

My search worked fine. Lots of acceptable results.

If you see LimeWire/4.21.1 versions in the connection window, remove them, they are possibly spambots which will either send you spam in your search results or block your searches from going any further. ie: specifically LimeWire/4.21.1(rc)

If you are using Windows 7, set up a few rules in your firewall. Of course first is to allow GTK-Gnutella.
Next is to block a port ... 27016 which is used by a large percentage of spambots on the network in both the incoming and outgoing sections of the firewall for each of TCP and UDP.

I use a UNIX clone and just downloaded the source code to compile and install the latest version of gtk-gnutella, but the software does not have an uninstaller (make remove\uninstall etc).
I don't install software that doesn't have the ability to uninstall.

This software sucks and I'm not wasting anymore of my time with it.

Thanks for your time anyway bro.

You CAN uninstall Gtk-Gnutella, at least in Ubuntu...

Gtk-Gnutella doesn't suck, it's a great program, looks simple but works great and developing is active and going on!

I'm using Phex but sometimes i'm using Gtk-Gnutella too...