Bittorrent

John Wendel jwendel at fnmoc.navy.mil
Mon Jan 5 18:21:37 UTC 2004


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>".

Regards,

John








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