Get mldonkey running in Mac OS.

I just upgraded my macbook OS to Leopard. Amule always crashes in new OS. In addition, Amule sucks in terms of download speed and resource occupancy. Now, let's move to mldonkey, the fastest, maybe most powerful in compatibility, and least memories usage emule currently. Following this instruction,you should be able to do the similar job in ubuntu as well. Leave me messages if you have questions.

Platform: Macbook, Intel duo core 2 2.16GHz

OS: Leopard
mldonkey: mldonkey-2.9.2.shared.-Darwin

1. Download the mldonkey via:
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
Go to the download site and choose Darwin version.

2. Unpack the file to a folder, e.g., on the Desktop. I installed STUFFIT EXPANDER, so it is done automatically.

3. Now go to the unpacked folder ~/mldonkey, create a txt-based file, named InstBatch with content as:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

die "Cannot locate the file : mlnet. Make sure it is in the mldonkey folder!\n" unless -s "mlnet";
die "/usr/bin is not existed. Please create!\n" unless -d "/usr/bin";
system "cp mlnet /usr/bin" ;
my $home=$ENV{HOME};
if (-e "$home/.profile") {
open PF,"< $home/.profile" or die "Cannot open the configuration file .profile\n"; my ($lang,$lc_all)=(0,0); while(){
chomp;
$lang++ if(/export\s*LANG\s*=\s*zh_CN.UTF-8/);
$lc_all++ if(/export\s*LC_ALL\s*=\s*zh_CN.UTF-8/);
}
if($lang==0 or $lc_all==0){
open PF,">> $home/.profile" or die "Cannot open the configuration file .profile！\n";
print PF "\nexport LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8\nexport LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8\n";
close PF;
print "Language setup is successful!\n"
}else{
print "Language setup has been done!\n";
}
}else{
open PF,">> $home/.profile" or die "Cannot open the configuration file .profile！\n";
print PF "\nexport LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8\nexport LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8\n";
close PF;
print "Language setup is successful!\n"
}

Or download it from here. I just know Chinese setup for non-english language :). You can leave the language setup lines as blank if English is comfortable enough for you~

4. Open a terminal, make sure the InstaBatch is in the folder mldonkey. Then type:

Chmod +x InstBatch
sudo ./InstBatch

It should be installed after this step. There would be an mlnet in /usr/bin/.

5. In terminal you can run mlnet now. Type:

Macintosh-2:~ Sodomarch$ mlnet&

to put it as a background process. Now open your web browser and go to http://localhost:4080/. You can manage your mldonkey via UI now! And for convenience, you might want to drag it to your bookmark. To terminate the process, just simply input kill in the box as the screen shot below:


6. You can close your terminal during the running. Actually it cost so little memories usage that you can always open it as the background process. Now you wanna a locally client rather than the web UI. You have multiple choices. I am using sancho. Grab it and make sure your mldonkey is running when you double click sancho. You got your old-friend emule/amule's face like:


7. Go to the menu->tools->preference->all(Or preference->networks->donkey). You might want to do these parameter modifications:

Ed2k-port: for HighID port mapping, make sure the same as your router configurations. I use 4663.

ED2K-
max_connected_servers 30
max_hard_download_rate 5000
max_hard_download_rate_2 4000
max_hard_upload_rate 10
max_hard_upload_rate_2 100

Compared with emule/amule, you can connect to multiple servers as you like. Surely, you are encouraged to upload faster, like 1000k/s. Just change the max_hard_upload_rate parameter. lol~

To keep your score or past user info. in emule. Go to your emule and click the ed2k earch icon to show network information. Copy ed2k UserHash and KAD UserHash respectively (Also workable if use notepad to open emule folder /config/cryptkey.dat). Fill these two hash into parameters in mldonkey:

client_private_key: Ed2k UserHash
md4: KAD UserHash

If you wanna the sancho GUI and background core process work simultaneously, check the preference->sancho:main->general

Then you do other stuffs: change the showing name as you like, setup max connections, enforce highID queuing, etc.

8. Import emule/amule temporary file. In web UI, use command import_temp /EDTemp.

9. Download plugin mldonkey_protocol_handler for your firefox. It enables your download links recognized in mldonkey.

10. In Finder, use cmd+shift+g to navigate into an invisible directory, which is mldonkey default setup folder: ~/.mldonkey
Make alias of folder incoming and temp to your favorite directory. I just put them on desktop.

Well, it should be okay now. Your new donkey is stronger and faster. You may never feel you are running a P2P downloading program, which is supposed to be resource consuming. Just occasionally check the status of the program by web UI or sancho. Normally, it is invisible and you can always keep it on background. I am using comast in a home wireless environment. Forget the slow amule, you get 200+k/s speed easily!