Okay, well. It might be a better idea to just grab the current version of BitTorrent from
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html.
1) Download the Python source
tar.
2) Extract the python source:
tar -xzf filename (replace filename...)
3) change into the newly created directory (should be something like bittorrent)
4) Run the following command:
./btdownloadcurses.py --url url to torrent
Alternatively if you wish to download the torrent directly to your harddrive the url to torrent can be a path/directory. I'm not sure how Mandrake has it set up, but the above works great for me, plus you get the latest version of BitTorrent.
Let me know how it goes. Oh btw, the above command
downloads the file(s) to the current directory. Use
--saveas path on the command to point it to another place.