Re: kazaa

[Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Patrick Lesslie wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:41:50AM +0000, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>Last night I was at a friends house and he showed me Kazaa lite.  I
> >>found this morning it is possible to run it on my Debian machine using
> >>wine.  Can anyone tell me how to do this, pls?
> > 
> > 
> > Unless you really want wine and kazaa-lite, you might enjoy the similar
> > functionality of gtk-gnutella.
> > 
> > 
> 
> And with apologies to the wine devotees, you go that road and get stuck 
> in a wine-swamp. The last time I tried to get KazAa-lite running with 
> wine I got stuck in some DLL not being there, or being there backwards, 
> or whatever, and it leaves you googling and not being able to do a thing.
> 
> I used to have XP around just to do KazAa, till I discovered that it is 
> an unprincipled chicken-way to be. Stick with Debian solutions, as 
> indicated.
> 
> Hugo.

Yes I learned some time ago to have as little as poss. to do with win. 
As soon as you start down the dark path you're goosed.
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Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>
University of Manchester