Hello

I've just installed Fedora 7 and am exploring and tweaking it. I downloaded the DVD image directly from a mirror, and thought I'd play the good community member and seed the torrent for it for a while, like fedoraproject.org suggested.

However bittorrent is not working: when I open the torrent file, nothing appears to happen. No error message, no asking me for the location for a new or partial download (like my windows BT client always did), no indication of anything. When I run bittorrent from a terminal I get the warnings below, but I'm not sure they're related. Does anyone have any suggestions, or need any more info?

warnings:
/usr/bin/bittorrent:3761: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_init is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_init instead
gtk.threads_init()
/usr/bin/bittorrent:2745: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_enter is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_enter instead
gtk.threads_enter()
/usr/bin/bittorrent:2945: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_leave is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_leave instead
gtk.threads_leave()
/usr/bin/bittorrent:3768: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_enter is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_enter instead
gtk.threads_enter()
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/BitTorrent/GUI.py:28: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_enter is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_enter instead
gtk.threads_enter()
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/BitTorrent/GUI.py:30: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_leave is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_leave instead
gtk.threads_leave()
/usr/bin/bittorrent:3785: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_leave is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_leave instead
gtk.threads_leave()

When you installed BitTorrent, did you install it from the package selection screen during install, or did you install it afterwards?

From the looks of things, it seems as though you should update the GTK libs.

Try a different torrent client that uses GTK and see if you get the same error. I recommend Transmission, and I'm 99% certain Fedora Core 7 ships with Transmission in the repository.

It installed along with the OS. I didn't explicitly select it in the package selection screen, I just went with the package defaults labelled "for internet browsing and general use" or similar, so I guess it was selected at that point. Strange that it shouldn't work when I've just accepted all the defaults. Anyway, thanks for the advice, I'll try another client at some point, don't need to use BT at the mo tho so I'll probably leave it for a while.