MLDonkey – Downloading Super Client
Posted on 18 July 2007 by admin
While there are hundreds of p2p clients out there, nothing comes close to MLDonkey. Some p2p applications span one, two, or even three types of file sharing networks — MLDonkey covers a mind boggling, numbing 12 protocols which represent even more networks. The eDonkey protocol, the KAD network (Kazaa’s file sharing system), Open Napster, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2 and more!
Since MLDonkey is truly a server, there are a host of clients that offer an interface to control this hungry beast. The easiest way to control it is with a web browser. Just point your browser at your own computer on port 4080 and you have a fairly ugly but super-functional interface. Alternatively you can telnet to the server on port 4000 for more technical but very powerful control.
For those of us who like flashy graphical user interfaces, MLDonkey has numerous gui’s, including its own MLDonkey-gui. Clients are also available for KDE, Gnome, X11, Mac OS X, Palm OS, Windows, Web-based clients and Java. The server itself runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BeOS and Mac.
Although you would typically run the server on the same machine as the client (default security will only allow the host machine to connect as a client), it is technically possible to run MLDonkey on remote machines and control it from your desktop through one of the many available clients. If you happen to have an offshore server at your disposal, this makes for an interesting exercise in avoiding South African bandwidth limitations — you can simply log on when a file is done and download it, without using South African bandwidth for uploading or for failed downloads.
To install mldonkey open a Terminal window and type;
sudo apt-get install mldonkey-server
You will then be prompted whether you would like to start mldonkey at startup each time, please select either yes or no.
Then again at the terminal type;
sudo apt-get install mldonkey-gui
The mldonkey GUI will then be installed.
The final step is to install KMLDONKEY. Again at the terminal type;
sudo apt-get install kmldonkey
You can launch MLDonkey from Applications - MLDonkey.
