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I need a good command line torrent client to run on my server (to host quite a few torrents) and from what I found rtorrent seems to be the best. I seem to be having a bit of trouble though. I'm running Cent OS 4.4
Tried "yum install rtorrent" .. I get..
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: rtorrent
Nothing to do
I tried to install it a while back, it downloaded the file but gave me that same "Nothing to do" argument. This is what it says now though. I hate being a newb...
yum can only install packages it nkows exist. it's not a magic genie that can go off and install absolutely any bit of osftware you ask for. you need to install it without using yum, or find a yum repository which does include it and add it to your yum configuration.
yum can only install packages it nkows exist. it's not a magic genie that can go off and install absolutely any bit of osftware you ask for. you need to install it without using yum, or find a yum repository which does include it and add it to your yum configuration.
How would I find such a repository? Or would I need a magic genie for that too?
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