installing/using bittorrent client

bruce bedouglas at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 18 05:09:04 UTC 2005


glad it works for you!!!

now if i can tie bittorrent to a media streaming client, i can have
seriously nice webcasting!!!

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Don Russell
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:11 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: installing/using bittorrent client




Craig Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 17:56 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
>
>>I installed BitTorrent-4.0.0-1 from www.bittorrent.com
>
>
> Have you tried starting it like this:
>
> $btdownloadcurses.py --url http://some/torrent/file
>
> Was it an rpm?  for Fedora? SOP is to use an rpm in general:

Yes, I got it from http://www.bittorrent.com I selected the "download
Linux RPM"...
>
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorrent/

I "rpm -e BitTorrent" and went to the above site and got the fc3 one and
gui...
> you'll need the bittorent matching your install and also sounds like you
> want the bittorrent-gui package as well.
>
> Restart your browser, then clicking a torrent file should start
> downloading via a bittorrent-gui.

Yup... now it's working the way I expected... click on a torrent file
and the bittorrent window comes up and the transfer is under way...

The one on bittorrent.com says it is for fc1... since there wasn't one
for fc2 and fc3, I figured the fc1 version worked on either....
obviously that's not the case.

Thanks for the tip to the dag.wieers.com site... not quite as intuitive
as www.bittorrent.com but it works a lot better. :-)

Too bad bittorrent isn't included as part of core... :-) But, we can't
include everything... :-)

Thanks again,

Don

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