[olug] bittorrent under RH 9

Patrick Olsen rattatpat at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 31 00:47:40 UTC 2003


just wrote saying i didnt have it working well i did some ore tinkering and 
it works now thanks alot for the help.

Wh1t3


>From: "Jon H. Larsen" <relayer at levania.org>
>Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>Subject: Re: [olug] bittorrent under RH 9
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:27:53 -0600 (CST)
>
>On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Patrick Olsen wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:06:26 +0000
> > From: Patrick Olsen <rattatpat at hotmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > To: olug at olug.org
> > Subject: [olug] bittorrent under RH 9
> >
> > just wondering if anyone has got bittorrent to run under RH 9 or knows 
>how
> > ive looked ont he net all over havent been able to find anything on how 
>to
> > do this.  would be great if i could get a hand.
> >
> > thanks
>
>Patrick,
>
>I've got it working under RH9.  Since my hard drive is flaking out at
>home (and thereby shut off until the replacement arrives) I'll reference
>my PC at work.
>
>First requirement is Python, which should be installed as up2date uses it.
>
>You'll wxWindows installed.  If you use GTK (Gnome), there are precompiled
>rpms at http://www.freshrpms.net - or use yum to install them.
>Look for wxGTK-2.4.1-fr1.i386.rpm
>
>If you don't have yum - pick it up from Freshrpms.  You'll love it.
>
>yum example:
>yum install wxGTK
>
>Create a folder /usr/local/bittorrent/bin
>
>Untar the bittorrent files into /usr/local/bittorrent/bin
>
>As root, edit the file /etc/mailcap
>
>Add the following line:
>
>application/x-bittorrent; /usr/local/bittorrent/bin/btdownloadgui.py %s;
>test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
>
>This should enable bittorrent for Mozilla - any user account.
>
>Let me know how it works out,
>Jon L.
>
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