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+1 vuze (Formerly Azureus)

transmission-daemon is the best!

@fancylad
Transmission runs as a daemon? I don't know that. Thank's.

Here's a couple off-the-beaten-path clients:

lftp has had a built-in torrent client since version 4.0.0

kget includes a torrent plugin.

But I'm usually just another rtorrent+screen user.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fancylad (Post 4090553)

transmission-daemon is the best!

I like transmission-daemon too - I just drop torrent files in a directory, they get picked up and the files download. Simple...

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesGT (Post 4090552)

+1 vuze (Formerly Azureus)

Just wondering why you use vuze... It was my first ever torrent client and I had used it for a while until I switched. Switched because the updates would give difficulties in starting up the client from time to time until I was fed up dealing with that and while I did like some of the little features in vuze over transmission, I could not be happier. Vuze always ran like a sluggish piece of badly written software...

Transmission in all it's un-blingy brilliance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dimm0k (Post 4090512)

Did you link to libevent via flags put along the ./configure? I thought I had libevent installed properly so that ./configure for transmission would be able to find it, but until I used the flags it was not.

I swore off polluting default locations with custom-built libraries, so I keep everything as local as possible.

My libevent is configured with

Code:

./configure --prefix=`pwd`/install

My transmission is built like so (IIRC, what really matters is the -levent switch)

Code:

#!/bin/bash



install_path="`pwd`/install"

libevent_path="/usr/local/src/libevent-1.4.14b-stable/install"



export LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L$libevent_path/lib -levent"

export LIBEVENT_CFLAGS="-I$libevent_path/include"



./configure --prefix=$install_path



if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit ; fi

echo press any key to make... ; read a



make

if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit ; fi



echo Install into $install_path [Y/n]

read -n 1 a

if [[ $a == "" ]] || [[ $a == "y" ]] || [[ $a == "Y" ]] ; then

    make install

fi

I just finished testing this code with libevent-1.4.14b-stable and transmission-2.04 (both latest stable), everything seems kosher.

Quote:

Originally Posted by qweasd (Post 4091629)

I swore off polluting default locations with custom-built libraries, so I keep everything as local as possible.

My libevent is configured with

Code:

./configure --prefix=`pwd`/install

My transmission is built like so (IIRC, what really matters is the -levent switch)

Code:

#!/bin/bash



install_path="`pwd`/install"

libevent_path="/usr/local/src/libevent-1.4.14b-stable/install"



export LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L$libevent_path/lib -levent"

export LIBEVENT_CFLAGS="-I$libevent_path/include"



./configure --prefix=$install_path



if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit ; fi

echo press any key to make... ; read a



make

if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit ; fi



echo Install into $install_path [Y/n]

read -n 1 a

if [[ $a == "" ]] || [[ $a == "y" ]] || [[ $a == "Y" ]] ; then

    make install

fi

I just finished testing this code with libevent-1.4.14b-stable and transmission-2.04 (both latest stable), everything seems kosher.

Ahh yes, the LIBEVENT variables you set were the ones I needed to get transmission to see where libevent was installed to. I also stray from polluting default locations as much as I can... All these years of using Slackware and I have never thought of using a script to not only store necessary variables needed for a compile, but also to automate the compile process until now! Thanks!

Anyone with deluge 1.3 on slackware 64 13.1?

I use ctorrent, because it just works, unlike all the fancy GUI BS apps I've tried, all bloated and unstable and have to update all the time. I just want something simple that gets the job done.

ctorrent-enhanced + qbittorrent + utorrent