Mandrake 9.2 Bitorrent Howto?
 

Hello

I am using Mandrake 9.2 right now and noitced Bittorrent is installed. Using Mozilla, I am
getting ASCII characters when trying to get some file from Suprnova. What should I do
in Mozilla configuration in order to get or download the target file or is there a way to
issue a command line to do the same in a console?

I have tried to include to /etc/mailcap this line:

application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py --responsefile %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

I've got this information from a FAQ about using Bittorrent with Linux but no expected results so far.

Thank you for your help.
:study:

I like the ncurses client. I run it with screen and then
I can check up on my downloads from ssh

just save the .torrent file

btdownloadcurses.py foo.torrent

Yes, but how this work out? I also have it at /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py but a doubt still remains: where or how you reach the target file? Of course it is a newbie question... :rolleyes:

You go to a console and type the above command but how the file "foo.torrent" is passed as an argument to a browser or something?

Thanks...
:confused:

Yeah I'll clear things up a bit.

when you are browsing suprnova or anything like that
right click the link and choose save as

Save the torrent file to your home directory.
Remember the files name.

You have to open a terminal
either konsole or gnome-terminal or something like that
and enter

btdownloadcurses.py name_of_torrent.torrent

Now that's a lot of typing except that if you press the tab key
the shell will fill in what things should be to the best of its
ability. so to enter btdownloadcurses.py longtorrentname.torrent

you could type

bt[TAB] and it might become
btdownload
you type "c" so you have btdownloadc
hit [TAB] and it becomes
btdownloadcurses.py

then you enter the first letters of the torrent name
lo[TAB]

and you get

btdownloadcurses.py longtorrentname.torrent[ENTER]

and it should start downloading

I do everything via the konsole

download torrent file
go to bittorreent directory in konsole
type btdownloadheadless.py <filename>.torrent

and that's it. commence downloading!

Yeah... worked like a charm, right clicking over Suprnova file information, saving it as a link, and going to a command line thru an opened console. Got an error message, I guess, due to an overcrowded server: "Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error -1:
Seems that Mandrake Linux had allocated the file and is waiting for a free channel or something like this.
Thank you all for nice support.

It could also mean that no one is seeding the file or that the torrent is old.

Sure... have chosen another file and download starts very smooth and, right after, an upload. Transfer rates are better than when I was using XP and with the same ADSL link.

Thanks.

or you could just install the whole thing via URPMI like I did, it automatically even put shortcuts in my KDE menu...

That's not a bad thing if it worked for you.
I like the ncurses version b/c I like to
monitor and sometimes start my torrents
from work over ssh.

I think everyone should try screen. It's really
handy.

I am ready to learn so could you give us more details on what you have done, I mean the whole thing regarding KDE menu and so on. I believe that URPMI is used to INSTALL everything from an RPM file and IMHO that's not the case regarding Mandrake 9.2 that got everything available, at least it seems to me, however this latest version has some weird behave of not show what is installed. I had to issue an "update-menus -v" in order to have everything shown (or almost).

Thank you.
:D