[CentOS] Anyone running giFTui successfully on CentOS?

Thu Sep 8 16:09:27 UTC 2005
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:11AM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us:
> >The easiest way to do this is as root:
> ># rpmbuild --rebuild foo-1.0-1.src.rpm
> ># rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm
> > 
> >
> Oh... I thought rebuilding RPMs involved a lot of programming knowledge 
> or something. Lord knows configuring and making binaries is tricky, at 
> least for a newbie.
> Does that pattern you've written above apply for most package rebuilds?
>

Pretty much, yep. In general it goes like this:

rpmbuild --rebuild foo-version.src.rpm
rpmbuild -ba foo.spec
rpmbuild -ta foo-version.tar.gz

> >I went ahead and did this for giFTui-0.4.1 for you...
> > 
> >
> Hey, thanks! That's really cool of you.
> 
> But, as is often the case with my Linux experience, I'm on to the next 
> error:
> 
> [dave at localhost ~]$ giftui
> giftui : No host to connect /apps/giftui/daemon/host.
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x089f4448 ***
> Aborted
> 
> Perhaps giFTui is just too beta to be used by me.
> Anyone recommend a good peer to peer software for all the non-bittorrent 
> networks, like gnutella and eDonkey?
> 

Dunno, but on the giftui site you might want to check out the 2nd post on
the main page and see if that fixes your problem.

Matt

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