Ktorrent Crashes [solved]

[ixoye777]

Everything was running great, then yesterday Ktorrent started crashing on me. This happens as I open it up - won't even load. Any ideas on how I can fix it?

 

 

Edited September 26, 2007 by ixoye777

[scarecrow]

http://ktorrent.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1516

Just a guess, i would be better to have the actual gdb outpout somewhere.

Solution: Either disable DHT (you have to wipe the ktorrent user settings to be able to do that) or upgrade to 2.1.4 or newer.

Edited September 24, 2007 by scarecrow

[ixoye777]

Thanks for looking into that for me scarecrow.

 

I went to the Ktorrent site and snagged the newest version (2.2.2). They didn't have anything made up specifically for Mandriva so I had to grab the ktorrent-2.2.2.tar.gz

 

I am really new to Linux so bear with me here!

 

I used ark to extract it, then opened up a terminal and cd to the folder I just extracted.

 

Then as per the instructions on the Ktorrent website I tried typing "./configure" Here is the last part of what happened in my terminal:

 

checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!
[dad@localhost ktorrent-2.2.2]$

 

Any ideas on what I did wrong?

[ixoye777]

I found an RPM for the newest version here ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/2007.1/i...2007.1.i586.rpm installed it and now all is well. Thanks for the help.

[neddie]

Just for your info, I'm using KTorrent 2.1.2 (the default version from the repository) with Mandriva Spring and all is (still) well. It's perhaps possible that an uninstall-reinstall of the repository version may have helped, although now you've got a newer version anyway.

 

The reason that the ./configure failed was probably because you don't have the KDE development packages installed, which include the headers needed for compilation.

[scarecrow]

Yeah, compiling ktorrent from source requires kdelibs-devel.