On 22/11/05, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --On Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:11 PM -0500 hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > But, I can't figure out how do "bittorrent" or download, or whatever the > > term is, a seed. > > If you've already got a URL to the metadata file, use: > > btdownloadcurses.py --url=http://someserver/somefile.torrent > > Run the command without arguments to see what else you can do. You can also > use btdownloadheadless.py if you plan to run the program detached (eg. > inside a "screen" session). > > The RPM also includes a btseed service that allows you to drop the seed in > a directory somewhere, but I'm still investigating how to use that. > The latest versions of bittorrent are run a bit differently. You only need to type: bittorrent-curses <torrent-file>
