Can't get shockwave viewer to install in FC3
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Nov 25 14:04:41 UTC 2004
Peter Cannon wrote:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 13:36, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>Don't know what you mean by "you know what you want?"
>
>
> Maybe I'm being dense? I'm thinking in the realms of ftp
>
> For arguments sake lets say I want Flashplayer I ftp to the site drill down to
> the relevant folder select the file then start the download process.
>
> If I read your advice correctly your saying do btdownloadgui.py --url
> http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer
>
> I was hoping it would give you a visual ability to pick and choose what you
> wanted rather than a specific selection, this is what I meant by 'Know what
> you want'
>
> Maybe its not for me but thanks for all your help I do appreciate it.
Perhaps you're confused about what BitTorrent is? It's not a generic download
tool. It's used to distribute large files (e.g. ISO images) by getting all the
downloading clients to upload bits of the file to each other. It requires a
special file called a "torrent" (typically having a filename ending in
.torrent) that describes the segments of the files, contains checksums etc.
and points the BitTorrent client to a server where it can find details of
where to get the file(s).
For example, torrents for Fedora Core distributions can be found at:
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
So you point your regular web browser at the site containing the torrents and
the specialised BitTorrent clients kicks in when you hit a .torrent link to do
the download.
Paul.
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