[Mldonkey-users] Heavy Problems Setting up

[Olaf Bossen]

To whom it will make write back to me,

after trying to install mldonkey now for hours I hope someone can help 
me. I am running debian/stable 3.0 and I'd like to use mldonkey a the 
primary downloadingtool for our ADSL router, accesed through the/a web 
interface. I do not want to run a server, just a client. After 
unpackting the tarball of the 2.0 release I got a lot of nice files, but 
nothing like an auto installer. From here I'd like to get there:

the bins shall be in /usr/local/bin/
the config files in   /usr/local/etc/mldonkey/
the log.0 whatever it may be in /usr/local/var/

mldonkey is running as user mldonkey in group mldonkey with limited rights

the directories /nirvana/pub/mldonkey and /nirvana/mldonkey/incoming are 
shared
and nothing more!!!!

the only access method i am planning to use is the web interface from 
other hosts in the 192.168.* Network

I can't run the gui because i don't have an x server.

What i did so far
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I created the mldonkey user account with adduser and set the ownership 
of  the files I thought mldonkey would access.
I moved the mldonkey-blablah-2.0 directory to usr local
I edited the downloads.ini file to my best knowledge (I still don't get 
the fields thing: which fields expect what kind of values like [] "" <"" 
"">)
created the /usr/local subdirectory structure moved the bins into ./bin 
and the *.ini to ./etc/mldonkey but symlinked it all back
made ./etc/mldonkey the home directory for mldonkey
"su"'d to mldonkey and ran ML donkey. And got

-----------snip-------------
Error loading /usr/local/etc/mldonkey/comments.met: 
Sys_error("/usr/local/etc/mldonkey/comments.met: No such file or directory")
Error: Exception 
Sys_error("/usr/local/etc/mldonkey/shared_files.ini.tmp: Permission 
denied") during startup
Connection refused : connect
chat_app_host=localhost chat_app_port=5036
SHARING /nirvana/mldonkey/incoming
SHARING /
------------ snip -----------------

I aborted before the process terminates because mldonkey can't process /proc

Problems
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The BIG ONE mldonkey tries to share / whatever I tell it luckiely that 
produces an error and I noticed early enough.
I have no idea where mldonkey expects the files download.ini and the 
other *.ini so that i have hardlinks in all places beeing a logical 
choice to me.

btw: yes

       (* Directories where files will be shared *)
shared_directories = [/nirvana/pub/mldonkey /nirvana/mldonkey/incoming]

exists in downloads.ini and it is the only line like that.


How could you help me?
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I know i am not to good at linux, but I guess i know most of the basics.
The easiest way to help me would be a .deb Package

Is there an explanation somewhere telling me how to setup (almost) 
exactly what I am planning to do?

Could you explain to me in parts what the *.ini files do, where and how, 
what privileges mldonkey needs, how to set up the environment correctly 
(especially the rights)

Thank you in advance for any replies, and if they just say "I'm feeling 
sorry"...

Olaf Bossen