BitTorrent Client??

BitTorrent Client??

[Hal]

Can I get some input about the various BitTorrent Clients available
for Linux??

I stumbled upon www.torrentreactor.net and found it very interesting.
I've tried to install Azureus, written in Java, but am bogged down
after installing a bazillion libraries it requires.. There must be a
simpler route, I would think.. Maybe not.. I'm out of my league
again... <grin> We thought Unix was complicated in the "good old
days."

Any comments appreciated.. TIA.

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    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1   (2.4.29)
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Re: BitTorrent Client??

[caszonyi]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Hal wrote:

>
> Can I get some input about the various BitTorrent Clients available
> for Linux??
>
> I stumbled upon www.torrentreactor.net and found it very interesting.
> I've tried to install Azureus, written in Java, but am bogged down
> after installing a bazillion libraries it requires.. There must be a
> simpler route, I would think.. Maybe not.. I'm out of my league
> again... <grin> We thought Unix was complicated in the "good old
> days."
>

I just installed azureus a couple of minutes ago.
I only had to download the tar.bz2 file and i read the readme inside of it 
and it was up and running.

AFAIK it only requires java so i have no idea about the libraries you are 
talking about. Can you be more specific - what libraries does it requiers 
?

> Any comments appreciated.. TIA.
>
> -- 
>
>    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1   (2.4.29)

I also have Slack 10.1


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Re: BitTorrent Client??

[chuck gelm]

Ditto, sort of.

I installed Azureus a year or so ago.

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
 


      Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 8

The J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) allows end-users to run Java 
applications. 	

Installation Instructions <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jre/install.html>


I'm using Slackware 10.2 [2.4.31].
I do not recall that any libraries were needed.
What libraries was your system claiming to need?
What distribution and kernel version?

HTH, Chuck

caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Hal wrote:
>
>>
>> Can I get some input about the various BitTorrent Clients available
>> for Linux??
>>
>> I stumbled upon www.torrentreactor.net and found it very interesting.
>> I've tried to install Azureus, written in Java, but am bogged down
>> after installing a bazillion libraries it requires.. There must be a
>> simpler route, I would think.. Maybe not.. I'm out of my league
>> again... <grin> We thought Unix was complicated in the "good old
>> days."
>>
>
> I just installed azureus a couple of minutes ago.
> I only had to download the tar.bz2 file and i read the readme inside 
> of it and it was up and running.
>
> AFAIK it only requires java so i have no idea about the libraries you 
> are talking about. Can you be more specific - what libraries does it 
> requiers ?
>
>> Any comments appreciated.. TIA.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1   (2.4.29)
>
>
> I also have Slack 10.1
>
>
> -- 
>
> "frate, trezeste-te, aici nu-i razboiul stelelor"
>                 Radu R. pe offtopic at lug.ro
>
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Re: BitTorrent Client??

[Hal]

Greetings Calin and Chuck; you have answered my query perfectly, but
I will annotate below anyway.. Apparently I selected a machine with
an incomplete Slack10.2 install, that had Java JRE but some other
needed libraries that were missing from the GTK+ install.. I will
start fresh and should be AOK..




On 09-13, chuck gelm wrote:
> Ditto, sort of.
> 
> I installed Azureus a year or so ago.
> 
> http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
> 
> 
> 
>      Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 8
> 
> The J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) allows end-users to run Java 
> applications. 	
> 
> Installation Instructions <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jre/install.html>
> 
> 
> I'm using Slackware 10.2 [2.4.31].
> I do not recall that any libraries were needed.
> What libraries was your system claiming to need?
> What distribution and kernel version?

	You, obviously, had a good Slack install and I didn't.. Same
Slack as you, 10.2; 2.4.31.. Will annotate the missing libraries in
Calin's part below..


> 
> HTH, Chuck
> 
> caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Hal wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Can I get some input about the various BitTorrent Clients available
> >>for Linux??
> >>
> >>I stumbled upon www.torrentreactor.net and found it very interesting.
> >>I've tried to install Azureus, written in Java, but am bogged down
> >>after installing a bazillion libraries it requires.. There must be a
> >>simpler route, I would think.. Maybe not.. I'm out of my league
> >>again... <grin> We thought Unix was complicated in the "good old
> >>days."
> >>
> >
> >I just installed azureus a couple of minutes ago.
> >I only had to download the tar.bz2 file and i read the readme inside 
> >of it and it was up and running.
> >
> >AFAIK it only requires java so i have no idea about the libraries you 
> >are talking about. Can you be more specific - what libraries does it 
> >requiers ?
> >

	When invoking ./azureus in the azureus tree it balked several
times; first wanting libgdk_pixbuf; then libpangoxft, then
libpangox, plus several more.. Had I a proper installation I'm sure
this would not have happened.. I had to fetch each one in turn from
another machine that should have clued me as to what was wrong.. I
will start from scratch again, now that I know it is possible..

APPRECIATE!!!!

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    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1   (2.4.29)
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