gtk-gnutella stopped working, says it's "ancient"

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 2/10/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> Starting today, gtk-gnutella won't run anymore, and I get this error:
>
> *** ANCIENT VERSION DETECTED! ***
>
> Sorry, this program is too ancient to run without
> an explicit user action: If it's not possible to upgrade
> you may edit the file
>
>         /home/rlrevell/.gtk-gnutella/config_gnet
>
> and set the variable "ancient_version_force" to
> "gtk-gnutella/0.96b (2005-11-22; GTK2; Linux i686)".
>
> You will then be able to run this version forever, but
> please consider upgrading, as Gnutella is an evolving
> network in which ancient software is less useful or even
> harmful!
>
> *** EXITING ***
>
> IMHO it's asinine for 3 month old software to refuse to run because it's
> "ancient".  Still, this needs to be fixed before the Dapper release.

It is known, and people are working on it.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtk-gnutella/+bug/6472


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Daniel Robitaille