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22 Jan 2004, 18:20
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bittorent and linux
ill just ask here again:
i need some bittorent commandline client for linux. i cant start any gui on that pc, because it simply is too slow and old for that. so i need something i can use from the command line.
i tried http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ and a few others, but none of them seem to work. (well, either that, or im just too stupid, but anyway, the help file are not very helpful)
what can i do?
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22 Jan 2004, 22:20
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Re: bittorent and linux
btdownloadheadless.py (its in the linux installer somewhere, i just emerged it on gentoo)
use --max-upload to limit upload rate and --url to specify the url to the torrent file
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22 Jan 2004, 22:40
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Re: bittorent and linux
Define 'not working'?
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23 Jan 2004, 10:40
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Re: bittorent and linux
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mit
btdownloadheadless.py (its in the linux installer somewhere, i just emerged it on gentoo)
use --max-upload to limit upload rate and --url to specify the url to the torrent file
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i tried that, but that didnt do anything. it kept printing some stats about the file, but never started a download. (i let it run for 30 minutes).
now im using Azureus, which works fine, but unfortunatly has my cpu at 100%
i downloaded the python-source and untared it. thats all i need to do, isnt it?
PS also, why do i suddenly need to use a public proxy server to get to this forum? i cant get here directly since yesterday evening
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23 Jan 2004, 18:28
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Re: bittorent and linux
ok, i did this:
btdownloadheadless.py --responsefile blabla.torrent
(because i already downloaded the torrent-file, but --url produced the same result)
it kept printing this:
saving: blabla
percent done: 0.0
time left: connecting to peers
download to: blabla
download rate: 0 kB/s
upload rate: 0 kB/s
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23 Jan 2004, 19:13
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Re: bittorent and linux
thats working then, it needs to actually connect to some "peers" before the download will start. If ur behind a proxy, that could cause some issues...
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23 Jan 2004, 19:17
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Re: bittorent and linux
yes, sorry, it started now. DL-speed is much lower than with Azureus though
im trying something called 'snark' now (if i ever manage to compile it)
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23 Jan 2004, 20:20
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Re: bittorent and linux
it starts slowly, but gets quicker. works fine for me and gives me full d/l rates (capped by the upload ofc)
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24 Jan 2004, 10:50
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Re: bittorent and linux
ok, i think ill stick with that client. i tested it this night and it seems to work fine. i even can use the gui-version, because it doesnt need as much resources as that Azureus-thingy
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25 Jan 2004, 12:46
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Re: bittorent and linux
the gui client is in python though!
and everything in python is sexy!
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4 Feb 2004, 14:26
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Re: bittorent and linux
btdownloadheadless is mostly designed to be used as a backend thing I think. btdownloadcurses is more suited for commandline usage... or btlaunchmanycurses if you have a load of torrents you want to have going at the same time.
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5 Feb 2004, 15:29
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Re: bittorent and linux
Launchmanycurses is broken (at least on my box), if a torrent name has certain characters it stops monitoring the dir properly. Headless also has some advantages over curses, mostly that it's guaranteed to not crap out on terminal resizes.
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5 Feb 2004, 15:48
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Re: bittorent and linux
i use the gui one now. woks fine and i dont have enough upstream-bandwidth to do more than one download anyway, at least not on that network.
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8 Feb 2004, 01:14
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Re: bittorent and linux
is there any client i can use to controll the download from another computer?
(like mldonkey with this nice webinterface for example)
it somewhat sucks to have two screens here, there isnt enough room :/
ofc, i could start a download in the background using ssh, but the id never know when its finished or if it does anything at all
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8 Feb 2004, 10:08
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Re: bittorent and linux
"screen btdown.... " to start the thing then
screen -r <pid> to reattach to it to check it
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8 Feb 2004, 12:37
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Re: bittorent and linux
thanks, sounds easy
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10 Feb 2004, 02:06
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Re: bittorent and linux
only remotly related to the topic, but i dont want to start another thread:
how do i burn dvd with linux? at best on the command line. i managed to burn a dvd-rw by using
dvd+rw-format -f /dev/sr0
growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=dvd.iso
but somwhow that doesnt seem to work for normal dvd-r's
(i just realized it SHOULD work, but a) im an idiot and bought a sony Dru-500 and b) the dvd-r were not that expensive)
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