aMule

aMule
is an eMule-like client for the
eDonkey Network
and
Kademlia
networks, supporting multiple platforms.
Installation
Install
the
amule
package.
amuled
is a full featured aMule daemon, running without any user interface (GUI). It is controlled by remote access through aMuleGUI (GTK), aMuleWeb, or aMuleCmd.
Services
The package provides two
systemd
services
:
amuled
and
amuleweb
. First you need to
configure
it. You need to provide passwords for external connection and admin password for
amuleweb
.
Start
amuled
service and
amuleweb
if you require it.
Enable
them to start aMule every boot.
Once
amuleweb
service is started, it is available at
http://127.0.0.1:4711
(or with external address of your host).
Configuration
At package installation time a new user account
amule
created. This account is used to run
systemd
services.
All configuration and temporary files are kept in amule home directory
/var/lib/amule
among them:
for amuled
/var/lib/amule/.aMule/amule.conf
for amuleweb
/var/lib/amule/.aMule/remote.conf
At the package installation time
pacman
generates a simple
amule.conf
file with preset external connection password. The same password is used for
amuleweb
configuration file. One can use the password for connecting amule from other remote clients such as
amule-gui
.
To generate password, run:
$ echo -n
your password here
| md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1
The output of the above command is the encrypted password. Now you edit the configuration file by adding following lines under section
[ExternalConnect]
:
/var/lib/amule/.aMule/amule.conf
[ExternalConnect]
AcceptExternalConnections=1
ECPassword=<encrypted password>
Do not forget that all files under
/var/lib/amule
should be owned by
amule
user.
# chown amule:amule -R /var/lib/amule
amuleweb
Note
amuleweb
provides much less features than
amulegui
(and displays much less info on downloads), and it has to ask for password quite often (unless your browser could save it). It is therefore advisable to use amulegui instead (which starts up very fast as well), and if you decide to do so, you could skip this step.
Create configuration files
Start
amuleweb
using the user you just created to create the configuration file:
[amule]$ amuleweb --write-config --password=
password here
--admin-pass=
web password here
This command will write the configuration file. The
password here
is the unencrypted password you used to configure
amuled
. The password for the log in on the web interface will be set to
web password here
.
Tip
If the default URL for nodes.dat for Kad network does not work, you can get URL from there:
[1]
amulegui
Amulegui is a GTK interface for aMule.
Configuring notifications
Some automatic actions settings are avaible through
Settings > Events
. The command
notify-send
is useful to set notifications, using some amule variables. In example, set the
core command
in the section
Download completed
for a notification when a download is complete to:
notify-send -i amule "%NAME completed (%SIZE bytes)"
The option
-i amule
includes the amule icon (a custom file may be specified adding its path between apostrophes, instead of "amule" icon filename).
Docker
A
Docker
image is available, see
https://hub.docker.com/r/ngosang/amule
.
See also
Getting_Started at aMule wiki
.