Re: How can I use bittorrent?

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

stan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:41:51PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
>
> > stan wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:09:58AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:24, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > --- stan <stanb@panix.com> escribi??: 
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I just used apt-get to install bittorrent from unstabele. 
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Question is, how to use it? All the instructions on the home page FAQ 
> > > > > > seem
> > > > > > to be for windows amchines.
> > > > >
> > > > > In your web browser, add a helper application entry for the appropriate 
> > > > > MIME
> > > > > type (application/x-bittorrent, I believe) that points at the bittorrent
> > > > > binary on your system.  Find a .torrent file somewhere, click on it and 
> > > > > off you
> > > > > go.
> > > >
> > > > You'll have a few choices for which of the tools to actually use, but if
> > > > you want the Windows-lookalike GUI client, you'll want 'btdownloadgui'
> > > > for your program name.
> > >
> > > Thanks guys!
> > >
> > > This got me working (in Galeon BTW).
> > >
> > > BTW, any reason I might prefere one of the other GUIS?
> >
> > They can be run inside a screen session so you don't have to close them 
> > if you want to log out of X.
>
>
> Umm, which client are you speaking of here?

The package bittorrent contains three clients: btdownloadgui, 
btdownloadcurses, and btdownloadheadless.  Since you were asking about 
the alternatives to btdownloadgui, I was referring to the other 
two[though I guess btdownloadheadless isn't technically a gui]

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