The ed2k-gtk-gui Handbook

Thomas Ritter (th.ritter at gmx dot net), Tim-Philipp Müller (t.i.m at orange dot net)

1. Introduction

• 1.1 State of this document
• 1.2 What is eDonkey2000? What is Overnet?
• 1.3 What is a 'GUI'? What is a 'core'?
• 1.4 Changes

2. Installation (GUI)

• 2.1 How to obtain the GUI
• 2.2 Requirements
• 2.3 Installation of the GUI from .rpm or .deb package
• 2.4 Compilation and installation of the GUI from source

3. Installation (core)

• 3.1 Which version of the core should I choose? (can be skipped)
• 3.2 Downloading and unpacking the core
• 3.3 Quick-start - Getting everything to work as quickly as possible
• 3.4 If things don't work right away - setting up the core manually

4. Usage

• 4.1 Running the GUI for the first time
• 4.2 Sharing files
• 4.3 Configuration
• 4.4 Connecting to the overnet network for the first time (bootstrapping) (Overnet only)
• 4.5 Maintaining your server list (eDonkey2000 only)
• 4.6 Searching
• 4.7 Maintaining downloads
• 4.8 Optimising downloads
• 4.9 Maintaining uploads
• 4.10 Tricks with 'advanced commands'
• 4.11 Using ed2k-links
• 4.12 Keyboard shortcuts

5. Questions and Answers, Tips'n'Tricks

• 5.1 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• 5.2 Using a http-proxy to fetch serverlists via http
• 5.3 Corruption found in XYZ in at N
• 5.4 Changing the default browser that the GUI invokes
• 5.5 Customising the preview script
• 5.6 Using ed2k-links
• 5.7 Exec command on download complete
• 5.8 International characters are not displayed properly in the GUI
• 5.9 DNS lookup for servers
• 5.10 I have a mouse wheel and weird things happen. Why?
• 5.11 The 'preview' function is always disabled - what's wrong?
• 5.12 Using several eDonkeys from different computers, all sharing one line/DSL router
• 5.13 Having multiple cores
• 5.14 Multiple GUI connections to one core
• 5.15 A small starting skript
• 5.16 Starting the core in the background or via telnet/ssh
• 5.17 All servers say that I am firewalled, but I am NOT firewalled!
• 5.18 I need to use a SOCKS proxy, but the command line client does not seem to support this
• 5.19 If your DSL/cable connection gets unresponsive and surfing the web gets a pain
• 5.20 "Couldn't create Temp File" error message
• 5.21 The GUI doesn't recognise my manually started core!
• 5.22 I want to tunnel the gui-core connection via ssh, but the GUI insist on a local
• 5.23 It says I am firewalled! Which ports do I need to forward in my router?
• 5.24 I have found a bug - what do I do?
• 5.25 This GUI really makes me happy - how can I reward you?

6. Copyright