On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 18:03, Charles Howse wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 16 February 2004 09:53 am, Dario Lesca wrote: > > Il lun, 2004-02-16 alle 15:31, William Hooper ha scritto: > > > Anyway, to the OP: > > > > > > http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/ > > > > Ok, thanks! > > > > Now, how to setup the .torrent file type for auto download the files via > > Web Browser (Mozilla) when I click on a bt URL > > > > (es http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC2-test1-binary-i386.torrent) > > > > in which file i must put the 'application/x-bittorrent .torrent' > > strings? > > Did anyone ever answer this? > > After doing a lot of research on bittorrent, I have installed it according to > the instructions at http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/ > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.... > > If you'll do a rpm -ql bittorrent, you'll see that it doesn't include > 'btdownloadgui.py', which is the file you should point your browser to in > order to have a gui pop up when you download a .torrent file. > > I tried installing an rpm of bittorrent-gui, which does include > btdownloadgui.py, but it depends on 'wxPythonGTK' (I think), which it says is > not installable. > > So then, I found an rpm of wxPythonGTK, and installed it. Still no joy, it > said there is no loadable module for wxPythonGTK.wx. > > Sooooo..., I uninstalled all that, re-installed the original rpm from > http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/, and ran the command it reccomends from > a shell, and I'm now downloading FC2-test-binary-i386 at 123.7 KB/s. Try http://azureus.sourceforge.net/. It is a great front-end for BT. It can manange multiple .torrent files and makes creating .torrents very simple. It is a Java app so runs on Linx/MS Windows/Mac. It uses SWT for the GUI (same as Eclipse) so it uses your native toolkit (GTK+2/Win32) over the (IMO) ugly swing, is fast and light weight. > - -- > Charles Howse Jim Drabb -- --------------------------------------------------------- The box said: "Requires Windows 98/2000/NT/XP or better." So, I installed LINUX! --------------------------------------------------------- James Drabb JR Senior Programmer Analyst Davenport, FL USA
