FrostWire: Install one of the most powerful music sharing P2P client on Ubuntu

July 9th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu

FrostWire is one of the most powerful free and open source based P2P client. I find it really great for P2P music. However, as all the P2P come with piracy issues, so does FrostWire. Please respect the pricay aspect of files before sharing or downloading using FrostWire. We are going to see how to install FrostWire on Ubuntu (Jaunty) distribution.

Home Page

http://www.frostwire.com/

Description

FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers from all around the world.

Download and Installation

1. You can download a deb file of FrostWire for your Ubuntu here.

2. Double click the downloaded deb file (frostwire-4.18.0.i586.deb) to begin the installation of FrostWire.

frostwireinstall

3. Depending on your Internet connectivity speed it’ll download supported files and will install FrostWire.

frostwireinstall1

Optional

If you don’t have java, FrostWire will download and install Java on your machine. However, you’ll have to accept the TOS of Java.

frostwireinstalljava

Running FrostWire

Once installed you can run FrostWire by typing frostwire at the run prompt (ALT+F2). Following is what you’ll see once you start FrostWire for the first time.

frostwiremain

frostwiremain2

frostwiremain3

frostwiremain5

Have fun downloading and sharing stuff using FrostWire.

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Tags: filesharing, FrostWire, frostwire jaunty, frostwire ubuntu, Gnutella, install frostwire ubuntu, OpenSource, Peer-to-peer

Emma

I cant seem to get this to download? Can anyone help me it keeps sayin I need to install a package and when i click that it says I need to close other things first but iv got nothing else open? :s Please help!!

Vivek

@Emma. hey could you please paste the error message as it is so I know what to troubleshoot !

marcel rubia

i heard so much about frost wire [ all good ] i like the good ones

thank you

Vivek

@G. Great to see your comment. Please feel free to drop a reference on your blog to this post if you want to and if you think it'll help the users of frostwire!

G

Awesome Step by Step guide.
FrostWire FTW, Share it with your friends!

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