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Old 11-25-2005, 11:17 AM   #1
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Question Bit torrent


I tried the bittorent installed by default on my Sarge system by downloading a popular torrent and opening it with btdownloadgui.py from /usr/bin. This opened up a nice interface and it created a save directorry, but there is no traffic. It won't download or upload anything, I can't see where to find out the peers/seeds ratio and when I try the same torrent in Azureus in Windows it works fine and starts downloading immediately. What's going on? Can somebody please help because this is about the only thing I need to boot into Windows to do.

thanks,
Mark
 
Old 11-25-2005, 11:46 AM   #2
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if you're used to azureus, why don't you install it in debian then?
 
Old 11-26-2005, 08:08 AM   #3
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I tried but it won't recognise my Java install, even if I install it just before running the Azureus install, I've tried re-installing it a number of times, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Code:
mark@debian:~$ cd /home/mark/LinuxSoftware
mark@debian:~/LinuxSoftware$ su
Password:
debian:/home/mark/LinuxSoftware# dpkg -i jre_1.5.0_01-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 88176 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace jre 1.5.0_01-1 (using jre_1.5.0_01-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement jre ...
Setting up jre (1.5.0_01-1) ...
debian:/home/mark/LinuxSoftware# cd ./azureus
debian:/home/mark/LinuxSoftware/azureus# ./azureus
Starting Azureus...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE [java = SableVM]
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://java.sun.com
Java exec found in  /usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/bin/
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE  [/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/bin/java = Error]
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://java.sun.com
debian:/home/mark/LinuxSoftware/azureus#
 
Old 11-26-2005, 09:09 AM   #4
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what ports are you using in azureus? most trackers block port requests on 6881 etc.

i use the btdownloadcurses command (original bittorrent comandline app)

You need to specify the min/max ports wih the start command (i suggest making a script/alias)

btdownloadcurses --minport 59000 --maxport --60000 <file>
 
Old 11-26-2005, 09:20 AM   #5
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Getting Azureus to work:
  1. Install Java properly
  2. Two methods of installation of Azureus
    A) Install it through APT: make sure you have the contrib section in your APT sources and have run apt-get update; then apt-get install azureus &mdash; note that Azureus when installed through APT can be a bit cranky when it comes to how Azureus' internal updating feature works as that hasn't been disabled as it should have been.

    B) Install Azureus manually; Download it, make it executable, install it as root to e.g. /opt/azureus
  3. Done!
 
Old 11-27-2005, 02:05 PM   #6
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Care to field a java question?

I ran the apt-get install java-package and got the following out put:

linuxbox:/# apt-get install java-package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
java-package
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/22.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 344kB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7, <> line 1.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
Selecting previously deselected package java-package.
(Reading database ... 86615 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking java-package (from .../java-package_0.27_all.deb) ...
Setting up java-package (0.27) ...

The second line spits out the following error massage:

linuxbox:/# fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin
Error: The file "jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin" does not exist.

Any ideas as to what I have done wrong? Also, I should mention that I have been trying to install java for a bit now, via manual install, so could I have done something there to stop me here?

Much thanks for the help,
Eric.
 
Old 11-27-2005, 02:34 PM   #7
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revenge80200, you must execute the make-jpkg command from the same directory the JRE .bin file (jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin) is located in, or specify the full or relative path to it

So, assuming that you are currently in /some/directory and the JRE .bin file is located in /totally/some/other/directory

You can then either
Code:
cd /totally/some/other/directory
fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin
or
Code:
fakeroot make-jpkg /totally/some/other/directory/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin
And you cannot execute make-jpkg as root, make-jpkg will complain about that. Therefore one must run it with fakeroot as a regular user.


And on a bit unrelated note, you seem to have some configuration issue with debconf (it seems to want to use a frontend that doesn't seem to be working very well...)
Either try providing the for some reason missing Qt.pm by installing libqt-perl
Code:
apt-get install libqt-perl
or configure debconf to use some other frontend (E.g. the dialog one) by
Code:
dpkg-reconfigure debconf
 
Old 11-27-2005, 02:43 PM   #8
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Sorry, but where would that be located at? Locate jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin pulls back nothing.

Thanks
Eric

I guess reading the whole help page would be in order.

Yes, sorry.

Last edited by revenge80200; 11-27-2005 at 02:55 PM.
 
Old 11-27-2005, 02:49 PM   #9
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You must download that file yourself from java.sun.com. Section 2 of the instructions state that quite clearly.
 
Old 11-27-2005, 02:57 PM   #10
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Edit: dastrike answered it before me, nevermind this post.

Last edited by Lokathor; 11-27-2005 at 02:59 PM.
 
Old 11-27-2005, 03:20 PM   #11
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Yup, that does it.

Sorry about not reading the directions what you had already written.

Thanks again,
Eric.
 
Old 11-27-2005, 03:20 PM   #12
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Funny the timing of this post. I just installed Sun Java this evening by following dastrike's tutorial. I had installed first bittorrent and bittorrent-gui, but couldn't figure out how to use it or what the command would be (even Google failed me within a 10-15-minute look); I apt-cache searched other packages and tried qtorrent; trying to download Xandros (for kicks trying out distros on my wife's laptop) it couldn't get the tracker and I didn't like the GUI all that much; kept reading Google results and removed qtorrent and installed Azureus instead; noticed the port 6881 on Azureus config and realized Guarddog was blocking it; despite previous failed attempts tried to run Guarddog as root and this time succeeded; opened Bittorrent access with the Guarddog GUI; started downloading Xandros, should be finished in a couple of hours.

And then ran across this thread.

Interestingly, I probably wouldn't have gone with Azureus if I'd had the firewall configured for qtorrent. I guess I don't mind resource hogs so much having used Windows the last 10 years, heh.
 
  


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