Hmmm, so the mirrors are unreliable? We should get rid of the "run freenet-webinstall" in linux, very few linuxers have their browser set up to handle .JNLP's...?
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:59:54PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > Matthew Toseland <toad at ...> writes: > >> 1. Most people who reach the downloads page apparently don't download > >> the installer. > >> - Is there a technical problem? > >> - Is it simply that the installer is cached by web proxies? > > I'm a long-time freenet follower but I haven't run a node in at least a > couple of years. Now that 0.7 is here and working I have decided to give > it a try. I am a Linux user. The first option on the download page is to > download freenet-webinstall. So I click on that and I am offered a file > called freenet.jnlp. What is this? I have no idea what to do with it. > The next option is to run javaws > http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/freenet.jnlp but I > do not have a javaws command in my jre 1.5.0_06 from Sun. > So the next option is: > > % java -jar > http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/selfextractpack.jar > > But I get the error: > > Unable to access jarfile > http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/selfextractpack.jar > > So I wget the selfextractpack.jar and do java selfextractpack.jar and > then the install proceeds normally. Very slick and easy installer! Much > better than last time I ran freenet. > > >> 2. A lot of people are downloading Freenet 0.7 > >> > >> 3. Very few of them are seeking references on #freenet-refs. > > Well, I just visited #freenet-refs and although there are 40 people in > the channel nobody is talking and nobody seems interested in my noderef. > Granted, it is the evening of 4th of July in the US but I would expect > at least a few foreign freenetters to be available to exchange noderefs > with. I asked in #freenet also and although there are a couple of people > talking there they are not interested in exchanging noderefs and just > pointed me to the silent #freenet-refs. > > If anyone here wants to send my their noderef mine can be found at: > > http://dark-code.bulix.org/1cry7p-9685 > > Also, is there a text based installer available? I have a headless > machine at a colo that I would like to run a node on. > > -- > Tracy R Reed > http://ultraviolet.org > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060705/84f5f1d0/attachment.pgp>
