Re: How do I get the tar.gz file out of a TPB.torrent file?
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A. F. Cano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Obviously I've never dealt with bittorrent before. I've read quite a
> bit on the web about how it works, the software to install, etc...
> But nowhere have I found how to unpack the contents of the TPB.torrent
> file so I can use it. Many sites claim a torrent file is a RAR archive,
> but unrar claims it is not. "file" claims it's a torrent file, so it
> identivies is correctly, and "btshowmetainfo" displays what's in there
> (a tar.gz file) but nowhere have I found an "untorrent" or "torrent -x"
> or equivalent.
>
> Man -k torrent doesn't give anything that seems usable. Searching with
> aptitude (/torrent) only reveals various clients. They all get the
> torrent files to your computer, but what to do from there? HELP!
>
> Any hints will be very much appreciated. Thanks!
>
> A.
>
>
Run something like this:
rtorrent TPB.torrent
Then this will start downloading all the files and letting it in some
place where you ran the `rtorrent' command. The torrent file is
something like the specification of where needs to connect and what
needs to download.
Regards.
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