Im trying to install bittorrent, but i dont know what i need to install before that. There are so many dependancies for each sperate thing, and im not sure what mandrake 9.1 comes with. if anyone has already done this install, can you help me out. what do i need to have installed before i install bittorrent? thanks

here's what I did:

Download the *.tar.gz file or whatever. ( http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html )
Extract it to a directory you want
Go to a website and download the *.torrent file you are looking for
go to your console
Go to your BitTorrent directory where you extracted
type this:

btdownloadheadless.py <path of torrent file>

and that's it. It will save the file to your extracted BitTorrent directory.

Here's an example of what the command should look like:

btdownloadheadless.py /home/John/Desktop/MSLinux.torrent

bittorrent wont even install because it says i need like winpythonmx or something

What the heck? are we doing the same thing?

If you go to that website, download that *.tar.bz file, extract it to a directory, that is all it needs. Then everything is all done in the console.

So when you type btdownloadheadless.py <filename>.torrent, it says you need 'winpythonmx'? I looked in my BitTorrent direcotry and I don't even have that file. You sure you're downloading the LINUX version???? You sure you doing what I said step-by-step?

im sorry... ok, yes, what you said does work... but for example, when i try to run btdownloadgui i get this

[atlantis@localhost BitTorrent-3.3]$ python btdownloadgui.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "btdownloadgui.py", line 13, in ?
from wxPython.wx import *
ImportError: No module named wxPython.wx
[atlantis@localhost BitTorrent-3.3]$

what im really trying to do is have BT++ working, and im assuming that bt and bt++ both have the same depndancies... does tha tmake sence??

yeah that make sense...
go to http://www.wxpython.org and download wxpython.... that will be enough. They have rpm packages for everything.... any doubts ask and we'll help you as we can!

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Ah! okay. That tells a different story. I can't help you there. lol

ok, i installed wxPython, and it make bt++ run, but there is no buttons at the top like there shoudl be

well then ur one step ahead of me , i cant even install the wxpython right , blah.... so frustrating

i just downloaded the rpm, and it worked fine in mandrake 9.1

If you still are having any problems installing BT you can go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ - add the contrib and texstar sources and then rpmdrake will give you the option to install a few various BT clients, like Shadow's client for example. All dependencies are taken care of for you and 'urpmi bittiorrentgui' will install everything right away. Although I recommend just using btdownloadheadless.py, as the GUI doesn't really do anything extra for you, it doesn't even have any changeable options on the GUI... kind of weak. The *headless.py script lets you specify all kinds of options like max upload rate, max uploads, min peers, max connections, all sorts of stuff. I'm fairly sure it has all of the opetions you can find in BT++.

Well all the options except the fact that there's no GUI and history and such. But you can download multiple torrents by opening up new instances of the script... so it's just as good.