BitTorrent - what to run?

Ok, this is going to sound really stupid - I installed the bittorrent rpm from www.bittorrent.com on my suse 9.2 machine, and I have no idea how to run it. Actually, I'm trying to upgrade to 9.3 via bittorrent. If anyone knows what to run or a good ftp site for suse prof 9.3, please let me know.

-Peter

Type "btdownload<tab>" on a terminal. That will bring up a list of the possible ways to start your torrent, depending if you have gtk support or something like that. I use the ncurses interface only

BitTorrent in Linux uses the Python programming langauge. Type find / -iname 'bt*.py' 2>/dev/null. This will find bittorrent files. The ones that has gui in the name is for gui but it needs wxWidgets (wxGTK) and wxPython. The python based BitTorrent is for only downloading one torrent file at time. If you want to use a program that is much easier use Azureus. Its a Java based program that is easy to use.

Thanks for the help. Actually, I'm writing this to you from Torrented Suse 9.3.

-Peter

hey guys

here is an error i am getting when trying to download mercury via bt:

jpolitis@dhcp22-32:~> btdownloadcurses.py 1708_Linux_VM.torrent
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py", line 25, in ?
from BitTorrent.download import Feedback, Multitorrent
ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.download
jpolitis@dhcp22-32:~> btdownload
btdownloadcurses.py btdownloadgui.py btdownloadheadless.py
jpolitis@dhcp22-32:~> btdownloadheadless.py 1708_Linux_VM.torrent
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/btdownloadheadless.py", line 24, in ?
from BitTorrent.download import Feedback, Multitorrent
ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.download
jpolitis@dhcp22-32:~>


what does this mean? how do i fix this?

thnx
gyro-x

have you tried:

$ btdownloadgui.py 1708_Linux_VM.torrent

Or just launch btdownloadgui.py and a pop-up box should come up to select the .torrent file.

jpolitis@dhcp22-32:~> btdownloadgui.py 1708_Linux_VM.torrent
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 27, in ?
import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk
jpolitis@dhcp22-32:~>

either way, i get an error and it doesn't work.


gyro-x

I just downloaded and installed the latest version of the bittorent rpm from the bittorrent site on my SuSE 9.3 box and got this when trying it out

/usr/bin> btdownloadgui.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 17, in ?
from BitTorrent import locale_root
ImportError: No module named BitTorrent
/usr/bin>

I got past the problem by doing this
cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/khashmir

as Python on my box is v2.4 while bt supports v2.3.

Originally posted by colesen101 cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/khashmir

colesen101, is that typo?? it doesn't seem like those two copy commands are actually copying anything AFAIK...

were you making a copy of file BitTorrent called khashmir??

you need to install wxgtk and gtk of course for bittornado/bittorrent.

Sorry, missed the dot
cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent .
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/khashmir .
Notice the trailing dot and the space in front it.

If you don't like the dot then this will work too
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/khashmir /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/

or alternatively this
cp -a /usr/lib/{python2.3,python2.4}/site-packages/BitTorrent
cp -a /usr/lib/{python2.3,python2.4}/site-packages/khashmir

All that the above does is (deep) copy a directory from one place to another.

Or you could symlink
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/khashmir
but I think symlinking may not be a good idea because some time from now when memory of these symlinks has slipped but bt for 2.4 is now available (assuming it will be) then an install of bt for 2.4 might just put the contents of those directories in those of 2.3 if the directory names are still the same - leaving a mess - unless the symlinks are deleted first.

khashmir is correct. Initially I did not copy it but bt complained.

That worked perfectly, I torrented 9.3, but unfortunately I didn't like it that much. Anyway, on FC4 it works perfectly after typing cp -a /usr/lib/python2.3/BitTorrent. (Thanks for that by the way). Thanks for all the help everyone.

-Peter

I got the error message, on Fedora Core 4.
How to fix it?


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py", line 25, in ?
from BitTorrent.download import Feedback, Multitorrent
ImportError: cannot import name Feedback

Solution for Fedora...

cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/
cp -a /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/khashmir /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/

This fixes the prob.

Thanks for the solution those who posted it...