[Guide] Installing Stream Torrent in Linux

[brownsfav]

Can you upload a copy of the extracted folder that includes the settings.ini?

Ive been trying to get StreamTorrent to work in Linux Mint and the nearest ive gotten to it working was using the Portable version i made from here - http://www.myp2pforum.eu/streamtorre...m-torrent.html using Wine.



Steps:

1. Download the Portable version of StreamTorrent and extract it to your desktop or where ever you like.
2. Now rename Portable StreamTorrent Build0068.exe to Portable StreamTorrent Build0068.rar.
3. Now extract this to your desktop or where ever you like.
4. You now have a Folder called Portable StreamTorrent Build0068, in side that Folder there should be StreamTorrent.exe plus another Folder called config with three files ft.dat, kn.dat and settings.ini.
5. Now i think this is where the key to getting this to work in Linux lies we need to edit the settings.ini with a text editor and change the ports and this is where i become stuck.

So if anyone has any ideas about ports please post.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

Just download and extract it http://www.multiupload.com/4XXK7O62Q0

[yhzarcali]

Yep, don't forget to keep your streamtorrent to the latest build, lot of improvements are made, it works fine with wine.

/Cali

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

Yep, don't forget to keep your streamtorrent to the latest build, lot of improvements are made, it works fine with wine.

/Cali

It installs ok with wine but i cant get it to launch any ideas on this...?

[Hawkeye34]

It installs ok with wine but i cant get it to launch any ideas on this...?

Been investigating further...

I think at this point any port or firewall silliness can be ruled out. No distro of Linux that I know of installs with an enabled firewall by default.

First I ran ST and then Wireshark to capture all network traffic. (Wireshark must be run as root [gksudo wireshark] in order to capture anything.) This confirmed my suspicions that there was no traffic getting to the Internet.

Then, I told wine to capture a winsock debug log (WINEDEBUG=+winsock,err+all,warn+all,fixme=all wine StreamTorrent.exe &> /home/[username]/winedebug.txt).

Two things I noticed: (1) It appears ST is looking for some apparently non-essential Windows DLLs which Wine does not supply. Although I don't think any of the missing DLLs are internet-related. (2) It looks like ST is connecting okay to ports on localhost, but for some reason it's also trying to connect to the same ports on 0.0.0.0 which of course is not a valid IP. This causes an error and Internet connection is broken. I don't know why it's trying to connect to 0.0.0.0 though. (Interestingly, it also tries to connect to the same IPv6 addresses, :: and ::1 with the same result.)

I might poke around later although at this point I don't know if there is much more that can be done without the help of wine developers.

[Hawkeye34]

After some Googling I found this (fairly recent) WineHQ forum topic that is of interest, although I haven't had the time to read it or the attached Bugzilla report yet.

[FedFed]

After some Googling I found this (fairly recent) WineHQ forum topic that is of interest, although I haven't had the time to read it or the attached Bugzilla report yet.

I started the thread, but still can't do s/thing.

[Johngoeswe]

So have we been able to get this to work on Linux or no? If so any good step by steps on how to do this. Just tried installing with PlayOnLinux to no avail.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

So have we been able to get this to work on Linux or no? If so any good step by steps on how to do this. Just tried installing with PlayOnLinux to no avail.

Nope dont work

[Hawkeye34]

I just realized the Bugzilla thread had patches attached. I'm currently applying them (you must compile wine from source) and if it works for some reason I'll write up a guide.

[Johngoeswe]

I eagerly looking forward to this, please let me know even if it doesn't work, I'm keen to see how to get this fixed.

[Hawkeye34]

Applied the patches...it doesn't work. Of course not. :mad_old: One caveat is that the latest version of the patches (comment 411 in the Bugzilla report) didn't work with 1.1.40, the latest version of wine now, nor with 1.1.35, the latest version of wine when the patches were written.
I used the next oldest version (comment 397) with 1.1.33 source. I doubt it would make a difference though.

Here is my terminal output...http://********.com/bLWJK56b

I think it's officially out of our hands now...I have no idea what I should do to fix it.

I think the only thing left that I can do is to use Wireshark to observe how Streamtorrent is connecting to the Internet and then conjecture as to why the same thing isn't happening under Linux.

[Hawkeye34]

I think I am making progress:

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=41178#41178

[Hawkeye34]

I went ahead and ran wine as root (even though you're not supposed to, it's a very VERY bad security risk).

I have the feeling the wine-forum thread has been "abandoned", at least for the time being. :frown_old:

I noticed something very interesting...for the first time there was no error messages to be found at all, not even when producing a debug log. Also, running netstat (specifically "netstat -l -A inet") shows me StreamTorrent was able to successfully make connections to localhost:39153 and localhost:15700 and localhost:15900. Opening VLC and telling it to connect to http://localhost:15900 (as if I was watching a stream) doesn't give me a "cannot open" error. It connects successfully and sits and waits until it gets data which is never going to come. So obviously StreamTorrent is able to get SOME network stuff done -- it's listening on those ports. (If it were not VLC would give me a "connection refused" error and they would not show up in netstat, as -l limits the output to ports that are being listened to.)

Still, I get that blasted "Not Connected". Not even "Partially Connected/Blocked By Firewall." Obviously something is blocking StreamTorrent's P2P traffic from getting to the Internet. I dunno what it is, though, or if it's something that can be fixed. I know most widely used BitTorrent clients (µTorrent, for example) run perfectly fine under wine. I want to hope it's something stupid like my wifi-router, but I think it's just the fact that the software is (poorly-) written -- in any case eventually the effort gets too prohibitive, and the problem unfixable, and I have to give up. I hope it doesn't come to that.

[FedFed]

Someone hacked SopCast code and made SopLaunch. Why no one can make STLaunch?

[djxstream]

i was hoping this would be fixed by opening day...any other progress? maybe an older version of ST works? [running latest ubuntu x64]

[Big Mac]

Guys, I am not a Linux "guy", but I have been reading about VirtualBox, including claims to be able to run StreamTorrent in XP inside VirtualBox

I make no claims for this as a solution, simply an avenue which might be explored. My apologies if this is total garbage.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

[me067]

Guys, I am not a Linux "guy", but I have been reading about VirtualBox, including claims to be able to run StreamTorrent in XP inside VirtualBox

I make no claims for this as a solution, simply an avenue which might be explored. My apologies if this is total garbage.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

it works fine on Virtual box , but the big aim is to get it working without having to load xp

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

Yes i can also comfirm that StreamTorrent works under VirtualBox but that rather defeats the purpose of running Linux if you got to boot up XP.

[djxstream]

I don't have an XP cd anymore, I will try with windows 7 via virtual box on my ubuntu and report back. thanks