need help installing torrentflux on debian

saimike · 08-27-2007, 09:10 PM

hi folks

i just installed debian 4.0 and i'm trying to "apt-get install torrentflux" but its telling me that "E: Couldn't find package torrentflux".

I am able to "ping www.yahoo.com" so my internet connection is up. any ideas?

cgjones · 08-27-2007, 09:39 PM

It seems that torrentflux is only available in Testing and Unstable.

saimike · 08-27-2007, 10:01 PM

so what do i need to do to use it?

cgjones · 08-27-2007, 10:10 PM

You could enable either Testing or Unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, then try installing via APT again. I would definitely research this more before you try it though, because I think it is more complicated then the way I'm describing it.

The other method that comes to mind would be to follow the instructions on the TorrentFlux website, which appears to be down.

IBall · 08-28-2007, 07:10 AM

Don't edit your sources.lst - this is a recipe for trouble. You can end up with a system with some other packages from Testing, and then it becomes a mess.

You have several options - first is to upgrade to testing permanently (ie: replace Etch with Lenny in sources.lst, then use aptitude to dist-upgrade). This is a good way to go if you are not running a server.

Is there a backport of torrentflux on the backports website? If so, use that.

You can download the latest version of torrentflux from the torrentflux website, and see how you go.

Or you can download the .deb file for torrentflux from packages.debian.org, and install it using dpkg. This is how I installed it. You will need to sort out dependencies manually, but from memory all its dependencies are in the Etch repos, so you can install them with Aptitude.

--Ian

saimike · 08-28-2007, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBall

Don't edit your sources.lst - this is a recipe for trouble. You can end up with a system with some other packages from Testing, and then it becomes a mess.

You have several options - first is to upgrade to testing permanently (ie: replace Etch with Lenny in sources.lst, then use aptitude to dist-upgrade). This is a good way to go if you are not running a server.

Is there a backport of torrentflux on the backports website? If so, use that.

You can download the latest version of torrentflux from the torrentflux website, and see how you go.

Or you can download the .deb file for torrentflux from packages.debian.org, and install it using dpkg. This is how I installed it. You will need to sort out dependencies manually, but from memory all its dependencies are in the Etch repos, so you can install them with Aptitude.

--Ian

ian thanks for the info.

this is going to be a server of sorts, but only for myself. i'm not an expert with linux but i'm not a rookie with computers either, so i can put up with some instability if all it takes to sort it out is a reboot. that said, how much more instable will lenny be?

i checked backport, nada

looking at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/torrentflux, for dependencies, i installed:

bittornado
dbconfig-common
debconf
libapache2-mod-php5
libphp-adodb
python
mysql-server

then downloaded the .deb file for torrentflux and installed it via "dpkg -i" it seemed to work, but i realised that i needed to configure sql etc before installing torrentflux.

would you be able to help me out here? i'm not sure what i need to do.