BitTorrent problems
Paul Higgins
higg0008 at tc.umn.edu
Wed Nov 15 19:53:43 MST 2006
Anyone using BitTorrent? I installed the RPM from the extras/testing YDL
repository (bittorrent-gui and dependencies), but can't get it to run
properly. It's supposed to sit in the background until you download
a .torrent file (in a browser) and then start up. At least that's the way it
behaves on my work machine (Debian x86), and according to the research I did
on the problem, that's proper behavior for bittorrent-gui.
I tried Derick's trick for locating bittorrent-gui, since using other
approaches in a terminal didn't yield anything:
# find / -name "*bittorrent*" -print > findbt
the file "findbt" is:
/var/cache/yum/extras-testing/packages/bittorrent-gui-3.4.1-0.ydx.0.noarch.rpm
/var/cache/yum/extras-testing/packages/bittorrent-3.4.1-0.ydx.0.noarch.rpm
/var/cache/yum/extras-testing/headers/bittorrent-0-3.4.1-0.ydx.0.noarch.hdr
/var/cache/yum/extras-testing/headers/bittorrent-gui-0-3.4.1-0.ydx.0.noarch.hdr
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-bittorrent.desktop
/usr/share/doc/bittorrent-3.4.1
/usr/share/mime/application/x-bittorrent.xml
I'm confused here. Shouldn't bittorrent-gui be in /usr/bin? Why is it only
in the yum cache file? Here's what yum reports:
$ yum info bittorrent-gui
Looking in Installed Packages:
Name : bittorrent-gui
Arch : noarch
Version: 3.4.1
Release: 0.ydx.0
Size : 17.59 kB
Group : Applications/Internet
Repo : Locally Installed
Summary: GUI versions of the BitTorrent file transfer tool
Description: This package contains the GUI versions of the BitTorrent file
transfer tool.
The documentation (/usr/share/doc/bittorrent-3.4.1) is pretty sketchy, and
there is no manpage, unfortunately.
Thanks,
-PRH
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