Using Bittorrent from a terminal???

ludwig W · 10-30-2005, 08:55 AM

Hi ,
I have a very old and slow machine and I don't want to use a gui, like Azureus to download stuff using bittorrent.
I understand that BT can run from a terminal using bittorrent.
I have sucessfully installed BitTorrent-4.0.2-3.1.i586.rpm for my distro (suse 9.3) but there seems to be no documentation on how to use it in Linux. What commands to I put in the terminal to start downloading stuff?

thanks
Ludwig

slackhack · 10-30-2005, 08:58 AM

usually it's btdownloadcurses.py <name of torrent>. sometimes it's bittorrent-curses or just bittorrent, or another variation (bittorrent-headless maybe? i forget). try which bittorrent, or which btdownloadcurses.py, etc. to try to find it.

ludwig W · 10-30-2005, 09:08 AM

hi slack head,

I've tried using

Code:

btdownloadheadless.py --display_interval 5 --spew 1 'http://someurl/filename.torrent'

which i found on http://www.gerusama.com/guide-bt.html

but I just get

Code:

bash: btdownloadheadless.py: command not found

and there seems to be no 'btdownloadheadless.py' file on my system, despite the install going fine.

Cheers
Ludwig

slackhack · 10-30-2005, 09:14 AM

it might be just btdownloadheadless without the .py, or maybe bittorrent-headless, and in that case bittorrent-curses, bittorrent-console, etc. again, which bittorrent should locate the path, and then you can go there and see what else you have. or if your database is up to date, you could also do locate bittorrent, locate btdownload, etc.

ludwig W · 10-30-2005, 09:18 AM

Hi Slackhead,
I've found the BT directory which is:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorren
and I seem to have none of those files/commands that you mention in there:

Code:

linux:/home/ives/programs/tmp # ls /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent
.                       DownloaderFeedback.pyc     PiecePicker.py
..                      Downloader.py              PiecePicker.pyc
bencode.py              Downloader.pyc             platform.py
bencode.pyc             download.py                platform.pyc
bitfield.py             download.pyc               RateLimiter.py
bitfield.pyc            Encoder.py                 RateLimiter.pyc
btformats.py            Encoder.pyc                RateMeasure.py
btformats.pyc           GUI.py                     RateMeasure.pyc
Choker.py               GUI.pyc                    RawServer.py
Choker.pyc              HTTPHandler.py             RawServer.pyc
ClientIdentifier.py     HTTPHandler.pyc            Rerequester.py
ClientIdentifier.pyc    __init__.py                Rerequester.pyc
configfile.py           __init__.pyc               selectpoll.py
configfile.pyc          launchmanycore.py          selectpoll.pyc
Connecter.py            launchmanycore.pyc         Storage.py
Connecter.pyc           makemetafile.py            Storage.pyc
controlsocket.py        makemetafile.pyc           StorageWrapper.py
controlsocket.pyc       NatCheck.py                StorageWrapper.pyc
ConvertedMetainfo.py    NatCheck.pyc               TorrentQueue.py
ConvertedMetainfo.pyc   obsoletepythonsupport.py   TorrentQueue.pyc
CurrentRateMeasure.py   obsoletepythonsupport.pyc  track.py
CurrentRateMeasure.pyc  OpenPath.py                track.pyc
defaultargs.py          OpenPath.pyc               Uploader.py
defaultargs.pyc         parseargs.py               Uploader.pyc
Desktop.py              parseargs.pyc              zurllib.py
Desktop.pyc             parsedir.py                zurllib.pyc
DownloaderFeedback.py   parsedir.pyc
linux:/home/ives/programs/tmp #

ludwig W · 10-30-2005, 09:23 AM

ok, i've found what it is.
I did some experimenting as you suggested and got this format to work:

Code:

btdownloadheadless --display_interval 5 --spew 1 'path to torrent'

thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Slackhead

slackhack · 10-30-2005, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ludwig W
ok, i've found what it is.
I did some experimenting as you suggested and got this format to work:

Code:

btdownloadheadless --display_interval 5 --spew 1 'path to torrent'

thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Slackhead

np, i should have mentioned they're probably in /usr/bin. the "which" command would have shown that. gl

kren · 12-01-2005, 01:24 PM

Hi, i have a similar question. I'm running bt on gentoo linux and i was wondering how to increase or decrease speed of upload when bt is running (console mode) without stopping it and fixing the --max_upload_rate?
I have no man entries, neither did i find anything useful on google...anyone have a solution?
Thanks
P.S. excuse any mistakes, my english is not to good :P

slackhack · 12-01-2005, 01:32 PM

i could be wrong, but i don't think you can do that while it's running. you have to add the options you want when you start the torrent, or else know some kung fu to add the new options to the running process (if that's even possible, don't know if it is, but almost anything seems possible under linux, so maybe it is

).

bittorrent --help (or the gentoo command with --help) should show you the help page.

spooon · 12-01-2005, 03:17 PM

I'm using the the BitTorrent client version 4.2.0 (the latest); and the commands are (all in /usr/bin):
"bittorrent" - GUI (was "btdownloadgui.py")
"bittorrent-console" - terminal (was "btdownloadheadless.py")
"bittorrent-curses" - curses (was "btdownloadcurses.py")

kren · 12-02-2005, 07:14 AM

I know how to use BT in console (i download with it all the time),but i just wanted to know if it was possible to change the upload speed without restarting BT, becouse my ibook is not very fast (433mhz) and has only 192mb of memory, so i don't wan't to waste it on GUI...
Tnx anyway
P.S. i hope my bad english isn't disturbing
P.P.S. i use btdownloadcurses.py for downloading :P

muppski · 12-02-2005, 07:30 AM

If you got apache running or it or another httpd service
you can use torrentflux [www.torrentflux.com]remotly from a webb interface

kren · 12-02-2005, 09:27 AM

No i don't want any other client, i really like this one...i just asked if anyone knows how to change the speed of upload when it's running. I guess it's not possible so i'll just have to do that like before
Thank you all