Hi All Ive been using slackware 10 for close to a year now, and ever since I first installed it I have made several attempts to install bittorrent. I always get the error wxpython is not installed or not installed properly. I have installed wxpython with slackpacks from the source and even tried several diferent rpm's. Im starting to wonder if anyones ever got bittorrent to work in slack. if anyone can help me I would greatly apreciate it

Yes it's quite painful to setup all dependencies for BT... I suggest you download all necessary packages from this site:

http://linuxpackages.net/

If you are using Slackware, you should definitely bookmark this site.

thats where i got the packages i tried

So... what kind of error message are you getting?

This might be out of date, but...
here is how i got mine working.

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download wxPythonSrc-2.5.28
extract wxPythonSrc-2.5.2.8
cd ~/wxPythonSrc-2.5.2.8
mkdir bld
cd bld
../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.5 --enable-rpath=/opt/wx/2.5/lib --with-gtk --with-opengl \ --enable-debug_flag --enable-optimize --enable-geometry --enable-sound --with-sdl \ --enable-display --enable-unicode
touch .make
vi .make
## edit:
make $* \
&& make -C contrib/src/gizmos $* \
&& make -C contrib/src/ogl CXXFLAGS="-DwxUSE_DEPRECATED=0" $* \
&& make -C contrib/src/stc $* \
&& make -C contrib/src/xrc $*
chmod +x .make
./.make
su
[password]
./.make install
vi /etc/profile
## edit:
add "/opt/wx/2.5/bin" to $PATH
vi /etc/ld.so.conf
## edit:
add "/opt/wx/2.5/lib"
ldconfig
cd ~/wxPythonSrc-2.5.2.8/wxPython
python setup.py WX_CONFIG=/opt/wx/2.5/bin/wx-config UNICODE=1 build_ext --inplace --debug
python setup.py WX_CONFIG=/opt/wx/2.5/bin/wx-config UNICODE=1 install

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# test it
python
import wxPython
^D
## if no errors then installation successful

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download BitTornado-0.3.7 [http://e.scarywater.net/bt/download/BitTornado-0.3.7.tar.gz]
extract BitTornado-0.3.7
cd ~/BitTornado-CVS
su
[password]
python setup.py install
vi /etc/mailcap
## edit:
change
application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadxterm.sh '%s' ;
to
application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
vi /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTornado/ConfigReader.py
## edit:
change lines 40-41
from:
_CHECKINGCOLOR = ColorToHex(wxSystemSettings_GetColour(wxSYS_COLOUR_3DSHADOW))
_DOWNLOADCOLOR = ColorToHex(wxSystemSettings_GetColour(wxSYS_COLOUR_ACTIVECAPTION))
to:
_CHECKINGCOLOR = ColorToHex(wxColour(155,156,157))
_DOWNLOADCOLOR = ColorToHex(wxColour(1,1,1))

restart any browsers

I've never been able to get bittorrent and wxpython to play along nicely. After hours of frustration, I decided to use Azureus as the frontend for bittorrent.

There is a Bittorrent package here:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...ra/bittorrent/


No fancy gui but works straight out of Mozilla without a hiccup.

I have always used bittorrent as coffeedrinker lists without a problem. I did always just download the torrent and then start btdownloadcurses.py from command line as I would pass --max_upload_rate 5 also. Otherwise I would upload but not download.

ringwraith, actually I edited the bittorrent downloading files to change my bittorrent directory out of /home/me to a larger partition. I also added command line options there as well.

You may be a more active bittorrent user than I am ;-) where is supranova when you need it.

Actually, I've only used it a couple of times. Wasn't actually that pleased with the results.

I downloaded a Knoppix games cd when it was mentioned on /. a few days ago. Took a lot longer to download than I would have expected.