Bittorrent under linux - how to install, then use?

[crimson117]

Does anyone know how to get bittorrent working under fedora3/linux? I clicked the rpm for the installer on the website, and ran the installation, and now it's sitting in my usr/lib/python2.3/system-something folder, but I don't know how to actually start downloading torrents...

When I click on a torrent link in windows, it offers to open it using bittorrent, and I say yes, and it start up nicely.

When I do the same under linux, bittorrent isn't available in the program list, and I don't know how to browse for it (which file do I choose?) or associate .torrent files with bittorrent permanently.

Any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

BitTorrent should have been packaged in Fedora, I would remove the manually downloaded package and just 'yum install bittorrent' and see how that goes.

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
BitTorrent should have been packaged in Fedora, I would remove the manually downloaded package and just 'yum install bittorrent' and see how that goes.

 

[n0cmonkey]

btdownloadcurses.py http://example.tld/bittorrent.torrent

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Bittorrent is available in the "extras" repo (get the /etc/yum.conf from the unofficial Fedora FAQ). Make sure it is enabled and use a wildcard search like:

yum list available *torrent*

[root@server mike]# yum list available *torrent*
Repository freshrpms already added, not adding again
Setting up Repos
livna-stable 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
livna-unstable 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
livna-testing 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 57 kB 00:00
MD Read : ################################################## 217/217
livna-stab: ################################################## 217/217
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 21 kB 00:00
MD Read : ################################################## 68/68
livna-unst: ################################################## 68/68
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 319 kB 00:04
MD Read : ################################################## 829/829
updates-re: ################################################## 829/829
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 11 kB 00:00 MD
Read : ################################################## 52/52
livna-test: ################################################## 52/52
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 311 kB 00:04 MD
Read : ################################################## 908/908
extras : ################################################## 908/908
Available Packages
bittorrent.noarch 4.0.2-1.fc3 extras
bittorrent-gui.noarch 4.0.2-1.fc3 extras
gtorrentviewer.i386 0.2b-5 extras

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I'd just install Azureus for Linux

 

[Nothinman]

Azureus requires Java and Java is crap.