On Monday 13 June 2005 12:33 pm, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:51:36 -0400 > From: "Tim Holmes" <tholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Bittorrent instructions / procedures etc. > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <BFE3AAE369B17F46A301FEBED9FD14641DD294@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi folks: > > Noting the new FC4 release today, it looks to me like a good chance to > play with bittorrent a little bit, so I want to set it up and get it > working -- I just happen to have a spare (testing) fc3 box that's not > doing much right now that would be ideal to play with it on. > > I went to www.bittorrent.com, and read through their FAQ etc, and in > general I understand the concept of how the bittorrent works, and what I > need to do to open my firewall etc for it. > > I downloaded the RPM of the client, and then executed the RPM -Uvh > BitTorrent.blah.blah.blah.rpm to install it, the install went smoothly > and left me looking for what to do next. > > I cannot seem to find how to proceede from here. I went to the FC4 > torrent and tried clicking on the link for it, and promptly got a > webserver error -- I think it was 404. I also cannot seem to find the > GUI for it (is there supposed to be one?) > > I would like to use this technology, but I am finding the documentation > to be a little bit too sketchy for easy use, could someone please point > me in the right direction? > > Thanks > > TIM go to rpmfind.net and search for bittorrent-gui I got the package from the FC3 extras, its a python program but it works ok for me ( I am getting the FC4 DVD iso with it right now.) James Carver
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