Manually adding java programs

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cokey · Post by **cokey** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:37 pm

I downloaded frostwire because the one in portage is from about 1997 but i'm unsure how to install it because it's all in java.

Any suggestions?

abaelinor · Post by **abaelinor** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:40 pm

is it compiled already or no?

Zepp · Post by **Zepp** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:02 pm

Looks like you just need to unpack the tarball and run that runFrostwire.sh script. I'd just slap the extracted tarball contents in like /opt/frostwire and symlink /usr/bin/frostwire to /opt/frostwire/runFrostwire.sh

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:07 am

oh yeah, i forgot to say i figured out you just run the start frostwire script

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:26 am

Zepp wrote:Looks like you just need to unpack the tarball and run that runFrostwire.sh script. I'd just slap the extracted tarball contents in like /opt/frostwire and symlink /usr/bin/frostwire to /opt/frostwire/runFrostwire.sh

running it from /opt gives a java error

Sadako · Post by **Sadako** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:38 am

frostwire sux, gtk-gnutella is as good if not better, and it's search filters are superb.

bunder · Post by **bunder** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:02 am

Moved from Off the Wall to Unsupported Software.

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:04 am

Hopeless wrote:frostwire sux, gtk-gnutella is as good if not better, and it's search filters are superb.

gtk gnutella is awful and brings up a tenth of the results that lime/frostwire does

Sadako · Post by **Sadako** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:04 am

cokehabit wrote:
Hopeless wrote:frostwire sux, gtk-gnutella is as good if not better, and it's search filters are superb.
gtk gnutella is awful and brings up a tenth of the results that lime/frostwire does

lies!

adekoba · Post by **adekoba** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:31 am

Soulseek (nicotine for linux) is the best P2P program I've used. The network is relatively close-knit, and it's not uncommon to have a conversation with the peer you are downloading from. Not to mention that it's album-oriented, so you're not stuck downloading each song from the album individually.

alistair · Post by **alistair** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:51 pm

cokehabit wrote:I downloaded frostwire because the one in portage is from about 1997 but i'm unsure how to install it because it's all in java.

Any suggestions?

cokehabit

After seeing this I have been playing around trying to get the ebuild updated. Currently have one issue with building it so hopefully within the next couple of days I will be able to give you something that at least runs (note it will not meet the high standards of the Gentoo Java Team

)

Sadly they don't provide source releases so you will have to create your own tar.bz2. I will include instructions at the time.

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:56 am

alistair wrote:
cokehabit wrote:I downloaded frostwire because the one in portage is from about 1997 but i'm unsure how to install it because it's all in java.

Any suggestions?
cokehabit

After seeing this I have been playing around trying to get the ebuild updated. Currently have one issue with building it so hopefully within the next couple of days I will be able to give you something that at least runs (note it will not meet the high standards of the Gentoo Java Team )

Sadly they don't provide source releases so you will have to create your own tar.bz2. I will include instructions at the time.

I have it working now so if i can help then just shout.

A suggestion might be to add this to the ebuild:

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{
	echo
	ewarn "If you use a DE you should be fine but those with window managers "
	ewarn "like Fluxbox or Window Maker should add the command "
	ewarn "/opt/frostwire/runfrostwire.sh to their menu"
}

alistair · Post by **alistair** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:37 pm

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231438

A hopefully working ebuild. can be located thru the above bug report.

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