Re: BitTorrent Clients

[Paolo Alexis Falcone <pfalcone@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:32:49 -0600, Brad Camroux <bgcamroux@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to get started using BitTorrent on my system (Deb. Woody).  But I seem to be
> having some troubles getting the client installed.  Specifically, I would like to use
> Azureus, but have no luck so far.  Has anyone got this working on Woody without having to
> "upgrade" to testing?  I think the main problem is that I don't have gtk2 installed, but
> when I
> 
>   #> apt-get -s install libgtk2.0-0
> 
> I get a long list of new installs, upgrades, and removes.  I don't have the time or desire
> to sit for hours configuring what would basically be a new system at this point.  Does
> anyone have any suggestions for getting a bittorrent client on Woody?  I really wish I had
> a testing machine that I could fiddle with and not worry about breaking things, but this is
> my "production" system, and it's my only system at this point.

You could always backport from the sources. Unless you need to use the
wxPython-based btdownloadgui script, you wouldn't need to specify a
dependency to the wxPython library as bittorrent would run on consoles
and even headless machines.
-- 
Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com