Bittorrent

[WA9ALS - John]

You might like Azureus too.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krikket" <krikket at gothpoodle.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: Bittorrent


> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, John Wendel wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 January 2004 03:26 pm, Krikket wrote:
> >
> > > So I decided to download and install bittorrent, and see how it
> > > works.
> > >
> > > Downloaded the rpms for bittorrent, and the bittorrent-gui rpm.
> > > Found out I needed another rpm, so I downloaded and installed
> > > that...  Everythings in.  So far, so good.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell, what's *supposed* to happen is that I go to a
> > > bittorrent website, and then download the "starter" file from
> > > there, and bittorrent is supposed to pick things up at this point.
> > > (Using the data in the .torrent file.)  (But if I'm wrong, please
> > > correct me!)
> > >
> > > I can download the ,torrent file, but I can't figure out how to get
> > > the bittorrent system running from that point.
> > >
> > > Even with the gui installed, there's no obvious way of starting the
> > > program.
> >
> > For the bittorrent challenged (like me), there's a nice program named
> > "snark", that works pretty well. Find it at freshmeat.net. Just run
> > "snark <torrentfile>".
> 
> Thank you very much!  It looks to be just what I need...
> 
> Krikket
> 
> 
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