Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

[peter colton <dotdebsarge@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 17:02, Martin McCormick wrote:

	Have a look at bittornado bittornado-gui 
       apt-cache show bittornado
	apt-cache show bittornado-gui 
	
These bittorent clients have been tweak up by debian. there is up and down bit 
rate control. The link for the man bittornado is broken. So 
dpkg -L bittornado
 Then you can track down the man you want.

			all the best

                                    peter colton

             and here is a couple of torent links.

		http://www.mininova.org/
		http://www.torrentreactor.net/


> 	Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux?
>
> 	I was going to download a file that appears to exist only in
> .torrent form and was shunted to the BitTorrent web site to download a
> .deb package.  I figured this was a good time to learn about
> BitTorrent so I downloaded the package and nothing much else really
> happened.  This system does not run X and I think what really happened
> was that the package unpacked and couldn't install.  A look at the
> BitTorrent web site mentions the GUI in system requirements, but I am
> not sure if that is optional or what.  In my case, a required GUI equals
> no application period.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group