

This is a command that I usually run to install the basic packages for retrieving and compiling software, only needs to be done once.

This should open a console terminal already in that folder ready for pasting or entering commands. Using your file manager browse into their newly extracted folder and open a terminal here using the file manager option in the upper right or right-click option. click link below, then click the "gtk-gnutella-1.2.0.tar.xz" link and save to your Downloads folder.Īnyway, I already have my system setup for compiling software and I ran through their steps and it seems to work. Gtk-Gnutella - Browse /gtk-gnutella/1.2.0 at I consider having to compile software a last resort option. Their instructions seem to be good and that is not always the case. I opened up their "readme" file to see what instructions they provide if any. Linux and other archive files can obviously contain anything from ready to run self-contained software applications to software that has to be compiled which is more complicated usually, this is the latter one. Then, I downloaded their Linux archive file "gtk-gnutella-1.2.0.tar.xz" to my /Downloads folder, I right-clicked it, chose extract here, which creates another folder called "gtk-gnutella-1.2.0", I clicked into that folder to see what it contains. I also installed WireShare a good gnutella client which worked well in Linux Mint 19.x, but when I installed it in LM v20 it gave me a dpkg error, I hit enter, and it seems to work, but I kept getting update errors related to it, so I removed it. 20-10-23 11:53:47.956 (WARNING): version of gtk-gnutella is too old, please upgrade!
