BitTorrent problems

[Paul Higgins]

Hi, Derick:

The XML file doesn't appear to be much of anything, just the line "<mime-type 
type="application/x-bittorrent">" in several languages.  

Once again, the "findbt" file that I created shows this:
/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

Here's the relevant part of /var/log/yum.log:
11/14/06 20:07:50 Installed: bittorrent-gui 3.4.1-0.ydx.0.noarch
11/14/06 20:07:50 Dep Installed: bittorrent 3.4.1-0.ydx.0.noarch
11/14/06 20:07:50 Dep Installed: wxGTK-common 2.4.2-0.ydx.0.ppc
11/14/06 20:07:50 Dep Installed: wxPythonGTK2 2.4.2.4-0.ydx.0.ppc
11/14/06 20:07:50 Dep Installed: wxGTK2-gl 2.4.2-0.ydx.0.ppc
11/14/06 20:07:50 Dep Installed: wxGTK2 2.4.2-0.ydx.0.ppc

What I can say is that this is a very old version of BitTorrent.  I don't know 
why such an old version is in extras/testing; the latest version is 5.0.1.  
And /usr/share/doc/bittorrent-3.4.1 is pretty sketchy: just a readme file, an 
MIT-like license, and credits.  The readme file has a few things about 
setting up a tracker, but nothing about using BT as a downloader.  The only 
thing I can think is that this version doesn't include a client or something.  
But using "yum info bittorrent-gui" gives the following: "This package 
contains the GUI versions of the BitTorrent file transfer tool."  You would 
think that would mean that it would work in both directions.  

Yum also confirms that BT is locally installed; however, there's no manpage.  
Is the fact that the RPM is in /var/cache/yum normal?  I'm surprised that 
nothing is in /usr/bin.  Maybe I just need to get a more recent version; 
however, this package did come from an official YDL 4.0 repository, so I'm a 
little confused as to why it's not working.  As I've said before, BT is 
supposed to wait until you download a .torrent file in a browser and then 
start up to ask you if you want it to handle the file.

Thanks for the links.  Here's a couple more for people interested in BT:

<http://www.bittorrent.com/>
<http://azureus.sourceforge.net/>

There's also a couple BT clients here, though I have no idea about the quality 
of this repo (be patient with your browser, or else use gFTP or something; 
this is a *huge* repo and takes a long time to display):

<ftp://ftp.ppc.ac.pld-linux.org/dists/ac/PLD/ppc/PLD/RPMS/>

-PRH

> Hey Paul!
>
> How ya doin'?
>
> Good to see you getting slick in seeing the available tools within the
> system as your friends.  By the way, did you bother reading the .xml
> file?  It may be part of the documentation, did you check it out?
> ...Just asking.  Usually .xml and .html files actually can reveal
> something regarding a product.
>
> Here's a link which may be of use to you:
>
> http://www.sidewalkcrusaders.com/bthowto/btstart.html
>
> also remember the Linux Documentation Project:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/
>
> Continued Good Luck...