command to invoke bittorrent?

[Garry Harthill]

On 22/11/05, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> --On Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:11 PM -0500 hawat.thufir at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > But, I can't figure out how do "bittorrent" or download, or whatever the
> > term is, a seed.
>
> If you've already got a URL to the metadata file, use:
>
> btdownloadcurses.py --url=http://someserver/somefile.torrent
>
> Run the command without arguments to see what else you can do. You can also
> use btdownloadheadless.py if you plan to run the program detached (eg.
> inside a "screen" session).
>
> The RPM also includes a btseed service that allows you to drop the seed in
> a directory somewhere, but I'm still investigating how to use that.
>

The latest versions of bittorrent are run a bit differently.

You only need to type: bittorrent-curses <torrent-file>