Re: [GNUnet-developers] newbie Q: connecting ..

[Christian Grothoff]

On Sunday 15 June 2003 00:20, Jean Jordaan wrote:
> Hi all
>
> (Apologies if this belongs on a user-.. list, please refer me if so.)
>
> I'm trying to test drive gnunet, and two things are puzzling me. One:
> starting 'gnunet -d' repeats this over and over, with now and again a
> "HELO: broadcast pointless: no hosts known" message:

Well, what I can see on the Gentoo webpage at
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/net-p2p/gnunet.xml

is that they have an ancient version of GNUnet, which is not 
protocol-compatible. Which version are you running? (gnunetd --version)

> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=19171)
> .public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=48225)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=21848)
> .public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=40223)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=6445)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=29161)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=20648)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=59961)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=60650)
> .public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=10798)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=41276)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=16016)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=18314)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=3052)
> .public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=59562)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=11470)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=35921)
> public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=60826)

Could you also give some more details on the architecture that you're using? 
Also, the output of "ldd `which gnuned`" will be useful since it can tell us 
which crypto-library is being used.

> Two: according to Gentoo Linux, the distro I use, the newest
> version of gnunet seems to have some huge dependencies (like
> qt, tetex and postgresql). Is this just Gentoo being overeager?
>
> address@hidden jean $ USE= emerge -p gnunet
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild  N   ] net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r1
> [ebuild  N   ] app-text/tetex-2.0.2
> [ebuild  N   ] dev-db/postgresql-7.3.3
> [ebuild  N   ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4
> [ebuild  N   ] app-doc/qt-docs-3.1.2
> [ebuild  N   ] x11-libs/qt-3.1.2-r3
> [ebuild  N   ] app-doc/doxygen-1.3
> [ebuild    U ] dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 [1.6.3]
> [ebuild  N   ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.76-r2
> [ebuild  N   ] app-arch/rpm-4.2_pre069
> [ebuild    U ] dev-libs/libextractor-0.2.2 [0.1.0]
> [ebuild    U ] net-p2p/gnunet-0.5.2a [0.4.6]
>
> Regards,
> Jean Jordaan

All GNUnet dependencies are listed at 
http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download.php3

Note that most are optional (even GTK). We use doxygen to generate our own 
docs on the webpage (and doxygen can use latex). Also, we offer RPMs which 
may be why they put RPM in there. popt may be useful for the SMTP transport 
but it's not required. I don't see any reason for postgressql, but note that 
MySQL can be used for the database (or gdbm, tdb, bdb or a plain directory). 
elfutils could be dragged in from dynamic loading (/bin/ld), so I guess that 
one is ok (but what else can you run without ld?). libwww and libmng maybe  
doxygen dependencies. No idea where they get QT from.

libextractor is definitely recommended but not required if you compile from 
source. In addition to libextractor you should have either gdbm, tdb, bdb or 
mysql. GTK+ is needed if you want a GUI. 

Christian