Soulseek on linux

bazhef · 01-24-2009, 02:13 AM

Hi, my sister just got an acer aspire one with linux os on it.
I have never used linux and neither has she and she asked me to put soulseek on it for her to download music.
I looked into it last night and found programs like nicotine ans psysoulseek but as i have only ever used windows, i dont have a clue what to do with all of the different .tar files that you have to install.
I was at it for nearly 3 hours last night downloading this and that and then extracting the files from each but nothing happened.
Can anyone please help???
I also installed WINE as i thought it would let me install the soulseek.exe as a normal windows os would .
It installed and opened but i couldn't connect and nothing seemed to work.
Is there maybe an alternative to soulseek that she can use?
She had limewire previously but i warned her off it due to the amount of viruses etc on there.

shuuhen · 01-24-2009, 09:11 AM

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01-24-2009, 02:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
bazhef Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Linux	Soulseek on linux Hi, my sister just got an acer aspire one with linux os on it. I have never used linux and neither has she and she asked me to put soulseek on it for her to download music. I looked into it last night and found programs like nicotine ans psysoulseek but as i have only ever used windows, i dont have a clue what to do with all of the different .tar files that you have to install. I was at it for nearly 3 hours last night downloading this and that and then extracting the files from each but nothing happened. Can anyone please help??? I also installed WINE as i thought it would let me install the soulseek.exe as a normal windows os would . It installed and opened but i couldn't connect and nothing seemed to work. Is there maybe an alternative to soulseek that she can use? She had limewire previously but i warned her off it due to the amount of viruses etc on there.