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Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?



On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote:
> On Monday October 13 at 10:57pm
> Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it
> > can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots
> > itself before it has finished booting. The standard cure of
> > reinstalling Windoze is not possible because he doesn't have the Win2k
> > CD. Also, he's fed up with virus attacks. So I've suggested nuking
> > Windoze and installing Debian.
> > 
> > The machine is fairly lightly used, and only by his kids - he doesn't
> > use it himself - for email/chat, "homework" (simple WP AFAICT, doesn't
> > involve transferring files to/from school computers) - and KaZaA. That
> > seems to be the fly in the ointment. Googling for "kazaa client" linux
> > only turns up something from May 12 saying basically "from this date
> > there is no Linux KaZaA client no matter what you may read elsewhere".
> > 
> > Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability
> > of KaZaA clients for Linux?
> 
> Using 'unstable,' add
> deb ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/gift-fasttrack unstable main
> to you're /etc/apt/sources.list
> Then do 
> 'apt-get install gift libfasttrack-gift'

I wasn't planning on giving him unstable, but I'll have a look at this
and see if it's worth a shot at backporting it. Thanks.

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