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Hello,

I have researched all the Internet and found only one RPM release of BitTornado and it is v.0.2.0 for Mandrake. That's why I've build myself RPMs so I can use this nice BT client under Linux.

The RPMS are build under Red Hat 9, but most probably they will work on all Red Hat 7,x, 8.0, 9 and Fedora 1/2. They might work also on other Linux systems with Python2. I've tested them under console only and are working perfect, for X you might need wxPythonGTK.

BitTornado 0.3.4 - i386

wget http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado-0.3.4-0.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh BitTornado-0.3.4-0.i386.rpm

BitTornado 0.3.4 - noarch

wget http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado- ... noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh BitTornado-0.3.4-0.noarch.rpm

If you have older BitTornado installed using rpm try -Uvh instead -ivh. If you have BitTorrent installed try running
rpm -qa bit*
and
rpm -qa Bit*

and deinstall if there are returned packages using
rpm -e package-name

Hope this helps

P.S.: I have registered with user Dreamer, but I am still waiting for the e-mail...

On SuSE 9.0:
$ rpm -ivh --test BitTornado-0.3.4-0.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/bin/python2 is needed by BitTornado-0.3.4-0
python2 is needed by BitTornado-0.3.4-0

$ rpm -q python
python-2.3-52

try
rpm -ivh --nodeps BitTornado-0.3.4-0.noarch.rpm

Yea, I know that would work for installing the rpm, but BitTornado still wouldn't run on SuSE 9.0 because the rpm makes the assumption that one is running Python 2.2 and the assumption that the python 2 binary is /usr/bin/python2, which it isn't on SuSE 9.0, it is /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/python2.3. In SuSE 9.0, there isn't even a /usr/lib/python2.2 folder which I see the rpm installs some of BitTornado's files to. So BitTornado would be unable to find any of its other files it needs to load.

Making rpm's is fun isn't it? Such minor differences between distributions can cause an RPM that works fine on one distribution to break on another.

Yup, I know

I learned how to make RPMs from here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rp ... build.html

As a base SPEC file I've used: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorre ... rrent.spec, with changes, of course

oops, remove the coma... http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorre ... rrent.spec

0.3.6

http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado-0.3.6-0.i386.rpm
http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado- ... noarch.rpm

Appreciate the RPM.. where does it get installed? And what other steps do I need to do to get this to work? I am having all sorts of problems figuring this out.

Appreciate the RPM.. where does it get installed? And what other steps do I need to do to get this to work? I am having all sorts of problems figuring this out.

Hello,
if you have installed the RPM fine than in console you need to do just this:

wget http://some.url.com/somefile.torrent

then

btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 20 somefile.torrent

20 is 20 kB i.e. the upload speed limit start btdownloadcurses.py alone to see all options.

Sweet that worked.. I was using btdownloadgui.py which was giving all sorts of errors.. why do all the instructions say to use bfdownloadgui.py?

I don't know, but there is no doubt that btdownloadcurses.py's interface is better which makes your question ever more in place

0.3.7

http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado- ... 86.tbg.rpm
http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado- ... ch.tbg.rpm

Sweet.. thanks!

0.3.8

http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado- ... 86.tbg.rpm
http://files.savagenews.com/BitTornado- ... ch.tbg.rpm