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pinkzomo · #1 (**permalink**) March 12th, 2016

I installed gnutella with apt-get from console. When I start it, I just get that:

Code:

$ gtk-gnutella 
16-03-12 16:53:54 (INFO): gtk-gnutella/1.0.1 (2013-12-31; GTK2; Linux x86_64)
16-03-12 16:53:54 (INFO): using native malloc()
16-03-12 16:53:54 (INFO): benchmarking sort routines to select the best one...
16-03-12 16:53:54 (INFO): vsort() will use qsort() for large arrays
16-03-12 16:53:54 (INFO): vsort_almost() will use smsort() for large arrays
16-03-12 16:53:54 (INFO): vsort() will use qsort() for small arrays
16-03-12 16:53:55 (INFO): vsort_almost() will use xqsort() for small arrays
16-03-12 16:53:55 (INFO): vsort() benchmarking took 1.21589 secs
16-03-12 16:53:55 (INFO): INPUTEVT using customized I/O dispatching with epoll()
16-03-12 16:53:55 (INFO): language code: "en"
16-03-12 16:53:55 (INFO): using locale character set "UTF-8"
16-03-12 16:53:55 (INFO): primary filename character set "UTF-8"
16-03-12 16:53:55 (MESSAGE): D-BUS set up and ready for use.
16-03-12 16:53:55 (WARNING): GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
16-03-12 16:53:55 (WARNING): GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
16-03-12 16:53:55 (WARNING): GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
16-03-12 16:53:55 (WARNING): GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
16-03-12 16:53:55 (WARNING): GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
16-03-12 16:53:55 (WARNING): restarting after abnormal termination (pid was 3639)

there is no window, no GUI, just nothing.

h4x5h17 · #2 (**permalink**) March 30th, 2016

May have been packaged incorrectly. You could try submitting a bug to the debian/ubuntu package maintainer of the package. Might not be a bad idea to try at the a forum for your distro (debian/ubuntu). Then someone using the same release version and architecture could try to see if they can duplicate the problem. If they can't then it is something specific to your situation.

pinkzomo · #3 (**permalink**) April 3rd, 2016

LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

h4x5h17 · #4 (**permalink**) April 3rd, 2016

The version of Gtk-gnutella in the Ubuntu-Trusty repo is 1.0.1-1. That version might be able to work on the network still. I would suggest updating to a newer version of Ubuntu (like maybe Ubuntu-Wily). Ubuntu-Xenial has Gtk-gnutella 1.8.1-1, which is pretty new.

If you want to stay with Ubuntu-trusty you might have to brave and learn how to compile Gtk-gnutella yourself.

Code:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-gnutella/files/gtk-gnutella/1.1.9/gtk-gnutella-1.1.9.tar.bz2/download

Or you could try downloading and installing it from sourceforge:

Code:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-gnutella/files/gtk-gnutella/1.1.9/gtk-gnutella_1.1.9-1_amd64.deb/download

You'll have to do something like

Code:

sudo dpkg -i gtk-gnutella_1.1.9-1_amd64.deb

and hope you have all the dependencies needed (I don't recommended this). If this is the version you installed, and it didn't work, you may need to use a new release of Ubuntu to get it working anyway.

If nothing works and you still wanna stay with Ubuntu-Trusty, but don't want to compile Gtk-Gnutella for youself, you can download the Windows installer for Gtk-gnutella and run it through Wine. You'll have to install Wine, but I think Gtk-gnutella works pretty good with it. Wine can be installed via any Ubuntu package manager.

Code:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-gnutella/files/gtk-gnutella/1.1.9/gtk-gnutella-1.1.9.exe/download

Code:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/wine1.6

If you hate using Wine you can try and see if a newer (working) version of Gtk-gnutella is available in the Ubuntu Backports for Trusty.

Code:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports