Nicotine on 5.2
Posted: Fri 14 Jan 2011, 12:45
Soulseek fans, Nicotine runs on 5.2, here's what I did:
1-Install python from PPM
2-Get Nicotine source files here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nicotine-plus/files/
3-Extract to ~/my-documents.
4-Go to folder you extracted to and set the file "setup.py" to be executable (right-click > file> permissions > yes)
5-Open console from folder and run "python setup.py install" (right-click in folder whitespace > window > terminal here)
6-Go to ~/.usr/bin and click the file "nicotine.py"
NOTES: I don't know if the devx sfs is needed or not for this. I always install it anyway, so I didn't try this without it.
The reason this even came up for me at all was because I went looking for an album and could not find it anywhere else. I was on the artist website with credit card in hand, and the store link was broken. So I checked the usual sources with no luck, then remembered SoulSeek from back in the day. A few minutes of Googling got me to the Nicotine page. I tried installing the debian deb and the ubuntu deb with no luck, finally decided to take a crack at compiling from source. Happily it was not the crazy convoluted process I expected, it was as simple as described above.
1-Install python from PPM
2-Get Nicotine source files here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nicotine-plus/files/
3-Extract to ~/my-documents.
4-Go to folder you extracted to and set the file "setup.py" to be executable (right-click > file> permissions > yes)
5-Open console from folder and run "python setup.py install" (right-click in folder whitespace > window > terminal here)
6-Go to ~/.usr/bin and click the file "nicotine.py"
NOTES: I don't know if the devx sfs is needed or not for this. I always install it anyway, so I didn't try this without it.
The reason this even came up for me at all was because I went looking for an album and could not find it anywhere else. I was on the artist website with credit card in hand, and the store link was broken. So I checked the usual sources with no luck, then remembered SoulSeek from back in the day. A few minutes of Googling got me to the Nicotine page. I tried installing the debian deb and the ubuntu deb with no luck, finally decided to take a crack at compiling from source. Happily it was not the crazy convoluted process I expected, it was as simple as described above.