I've been using shadows for months on redhat 9.0.
I don't have python 2.3 installed.
First of all you need to install wxPython, did you do that?
You should use the correct version the latest wxPython needs python 2.3.
You can use this link
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpy ... 1.i386.rpm
After installing you should be able to run shadows/tornado.
Just be sure you don't use unicode as you're language set.
This version of wxPython does not support unicode.
Go to the directory where you put shadow and start you're torrent with in a terminal window:
env -u LANG ./btdownloadgui.py <torrentfile>
If you like your browser to automatically start shadow read the file INSTALL.unix.txt which says:
Quote:
untar and put a line in /etc/mailcap which is similar to the
following, only replace the path to
/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py with the one it's actually in.
application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
You may have to restart your web browser for it to start
using BitTorrent.
If you're using a web browser which doesn't respect
/etc/mailcap you can go into the mimetype configuration for
your web browser and manually associate application/x-bittorrent
with btdownloadgui.py (with the appropriate path, of course.)
Let me now if you got it working.