Can't successfully install a bittorrent client in 12.2.

pravlin · 04-01-2009, 11:15 PM

Hi folks,
I have been using ubuntu,Mandriva and fedora randomly for about 1 year. But I learned no Linux. I wanted to know Linux more and I shifted to Slackware with a decision that I wont ask in the forum every simple things and will try to fix everything by myself.

Now I can't install a bittorrent client.(Vuze is working,but I dont like it.
I tried Deluge. It had some python pkg_resources problem and I fixed it. But its not all fixed.A window opens up with nothing in it.
I installed .tgz of bittorrent and it said it have no libtorrent.rasterbar.1.so. I installed it. No change.

PHP Code:



ktorrent 
ktorrent: error while loading shared libraries: libsolid.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

when i tried to compile q bittorrent from source, even after installing boost-1.38.0-i686-1as.tgz, it kept saying I have no libboost.

What to do?

hitest · 04-01-2009, 11:37 PM

I'm running a full install of Slackware 12.2. I installed ktorrent from CD #4 in /extra. It works fine for me.

pravlin · 04-01-2009, 11:52 PM

Oh, I tried the ktorrent from slackDVD. Now its working.
But.... on installation, I selected full install +4.8 GB of softwares.
THanks hitest

vinegaroon · 04-02-2009, 01:45 AM

ktorrent looking for libsolid sounds like the KDE 4 version of ktorrent...
Anyway, libtorrent and rtorrent are available on slackbuilds.org and work fine.

tramni1980 · 04-02-2009, 05:17 AM

In /extra of the Slackware-12.2 dvd you can find bittorrent. It is console version only, but works flawlessly and I am happy with it.

hitest · 04-02-2009, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by pravlin

Oh, I tried the ktorrent from slackDVD. Now its working.
But.... on installation, I selected full install +4.8 GB of softwares.
THanks hitest

You're welcome.

Edit: Added later. The contents of the /extra directory are not part of a full installation, they can be added later.

pravlin · 04-03-2009, 02:52 AM

Ktorrent in EXCELLENT.
But what about that qbittorrent dependency problem?

pravlin · 04-05-2009, 02:32 AM

bash-3.1$ qbittorrent
qbittorrent: error while loading shared libraries: libtorrent-rasterbar.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
bash-3.1$

this is the error message

Speek · 04-05-2009, 03:27 AM

qbittorrent and deluge both depend on libtorrent-rasterbar, so you need to install that.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...ent-rasterbar/

tommcd · 04-05-2009, 03:41 AM

There is also the totally excellent and very light on resources Transmission, which you can get from slackbuilds.org:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.../transmission/
Transmission is especially useful if you use XFCE desktop instead of KDE.

pravlin · 04-06-2009, 05:46 AM

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qbittorrent and deluge both depend on libtorrent-rasterbar, so you need to install that.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...ent-rasterbar/

The trouble I mentioned is after installation of this and all the dependencies(+boost).

Quote:

There is also the totally excellent and very light on resources Transmission, which you can get from slackbuilds.org:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.../transmission/
Transmission is especially useful if you use XFCE desktop instead of KDE.

Let me try transmission also.Thanks.But I have free Bandwidth only from 2am to 6 am. Will reply tomorrow.