How to get aMule on Raspberry Pi

4.1 install aMule

To use aMule via a web browser you shold install aMule and aMule daemon. The daemon will automatically start at the boot of your board and will start the aMule and a web server used to control it.

You can get both aMule and Amule daemon via apt:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install amule amule-daemon

At the end of the installation you could get the following message:

[warn] Not starting aMule daemon, AMULED_USER not set in /etc/default/amule-daemon. ... (warning).

don't worry, it is because there is not yet an user to run the aMule server, we'll fix it immediately.

4.2 configure aMule daemon

Create a new user called amule, choosing a strong password and letting blank all the other information that the system will ask for:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo adduser amule
pw: <typeapasswordhere>

This user will be used to run the aMule daemon but you can also use it to connect via SSH to your board.

Once created the new user, we must configure the daemon to use it to run aMule:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo nano /etc/default/amule-daemon

Modify the file like this:

# Configuration for /etc/init.d/amule-daemon

# The init.d script will only run if this variable non-empty.
AMULED_USER="amule"

# You can set this variable to make the daemon use an alternative HOME.
# The daemon will use $AMULED_HOME/.aMule as the directory, so if you
# want to have $AMULED_HOME the real root (with an Incoming and Temp
# directories), you can do `ln -s . $AMULED_HOME/.aMule`.
AMULED_HOME="/home/amule"

then press Ctrl+o to save and Ctrl+x to exit.

Start the daemon with the following command:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/amule-daemon start

The daemon will automatically create a default aMule configuration file in the this folder:

/home/amule/.aMule/amule.conf

4.3 Configure aMule

Before editing the configuration file we need to choose two password and to calculate their MD5 digest.

The first password is the External Connection Password and will be requested by the aMule daemon in order to accept an external connection. This password will also be used by the amule web-server to connect to aMule daemon.

The second password is the Web Password and will be requested by the amule web-server to accept a connection via web-browser.

In my example I chosen the following passwords:

• External Connection Password: amuleberryec
• Web password: amuleberryweb

of course you should choose different and stronger passwords and use them to get the digest as the following code shows:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ echo -n amuleberryec | md5sum
35deae36144400e842ffe4e8a508f03a  -
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ echo -n amuleberryweb | md5sum
2a2bdb142ec114669041efc9de10a58a  -

Now you can edit the configuration file in order to enable the external connection, enable the web-server and save the digest of your passwords.

In the following code I highlighted with “>>>” the line you have to modify.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo nano /home/amule/.aMule/amule.conf
[ExternalConnect]
UseSrcSeeds=0
>>> AcceptExternalConnections=1
ECAddress=
ECPort=4712
>>> ECPassword=35deae36144400e842ffe4e8a508f03a
UPnPECEnabled=0
ShowProgressBar=1
ShowPercent=1
UseSecIdent=1
IpFilterClients=1
IpFilterServers=1
TransmitOnlyUploadingClients=0
...
[WebServer]
>>> Enabled=1
>>> Password=2a2bdb142ec114669041efc9de10a58a
PasswordLow=
>>> Port=8080 
WebUPnPTCPPort=50001
UPnPWebServerEnabled=0
UseGzip=1
UseLowRightsUser=0
PageRefreshTime=120
Template=

As you can see I also changed the port used by the web-server but you are free to left the default one.

4.4 Adding server.met and nodes.dat

To properly work with eDonkey an KADemila network you need to download two files:

• the server.met file containing a list of eDonkey server
• the nodes.dat file containing a list of KADemila nodes

you can search these files on web choosing the more appropriate to your geographical location and your internet connection. Bee careful to verify that the source from which you are downloading them is trusty.

Here following the command to install those file. Please replace the URL of the two files with your favourite ones.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo su - amule 
amule@raspberrypi ~ $ cd .aMule/
amule@raspberrypi ~/.aMule $ wget "http://update.adunanza.net/servers.met"
amule@raspberrypi ~/.aMule $ mv servers.met server.met

amule@raspberrypi ~/.aMule $ wget http://upd.emule-security.org/nodes.dat
amule@raspberrypi ~/.aMule $ exit

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/amule-daemon restart

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo netstat -ltnp

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3295            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2292/sshd       
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4712            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3493/amuled     
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3497/amuleweb   
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4662            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3493/amuled