On Sunday 04 January 2004 03:26 pm, Krikket wrote: > So I decided to download and install bittorrent, and see how it > works. > > Downloaded the rpms for bittorrent, and the bittorrent-gui rpm. > Found out I needed another rpm, so I downloaded and installed > that... Everythings in. So far, so good. > > As far as I can tell, what's *supposed* to happen is that I go to a > bittorrent website, and then download the "starter" file from > there, and bittorrent is supposed to pick things up at this point. > (Using the data in the .torrent file.) (But if I'm wrong, please > correct me!) > > I can download the ,torrent file, but I can't figure out how to get > the bittorrent system running from that point. > > Even with the gui installed, there's no obvious way of starting the > program. For the bittorrent challenged (like me), there's a nice program named "snark", that works pretty well. Find it at freshmeat.net. Just run "snark <torrentfile>". Regards, John
