aMule

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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 amulweb 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 core command notify-send (requires libnotify) 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: 

$ 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