Nicotine FAQ Index

Last changed on Tue Jun 24 09:18:34 2008 CEST

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1. General information and availability

• 1.1. What is nicotine?
• 1.2. Very funny, what is Nicotine really?
• 1.3. Where can I get it?
• 1.4. Where did the name "nicotine" come from?
• 1.5. I made this awesome patch that does <something>, can I send it to you?
• 1.6. Okay, I have this great idea for a feature that I'd like to see in nicotine, can I bug you with it?
• 1.7. You bastard! You stole PySoulSeek and repackaged it under a different name!

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2. Installation

• 2.1. How do I install nicotine in an ideal world? [Debian, Gentoo]
• 2.2. How do I install nicotine in a slightly less ideal world? [SuSE, Mandrake, MacOSX/Fink, RedHat]
• 2.3. How can I install nicotine from a tarball?
• 2.4. How can I create an RPM from the nicotine tarball?
• 2.5. What if I don't have (new enough) PyGTK bundled with my distribution?
• 2.6. I'm a MacOSX user and I don't have a clue on where to begin, do you?

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3. Usage / Features

• 3.1. How does queuing work in nicotine (compared to the Windows client)?
• 3.2. Why can't I set an X number of upload slots?

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4. Common problems

• 4.1. I can't browse / download from / etc user X, why?
• 4.2. When I try to browse user X, it takes a long time (30 seconds - 1 minute) before the tab shows. Why?
• 4.3. I can't connect to _anyone_! Why?!?
• 4.4. I can't connect to the server? What's up?
• 4.5. Port forwarding from a linux NAT router
• 4.6. Searches yield no results.. what's going on?
• 4.7. Why do I have high CPU usage when Nicotine is idle?
• 4.8. How to resolve "File not shared" errors

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