ctorrent is useable on the command line.

-- 
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
Please use in that order."
Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Does ctorrent use a console or g.u.i. interface?
> I managed to download the torrent using lftp but it may not have come down
> cleanly or completely since after copying iso to flash drive the iso would
> not boot.
>
>
> -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
> order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
>
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to troubleshoot Transmission, and I can't recall if I
> > used Firefox to download the iso directly or used the torrent the last
> > time I downloaded Knoppix, but if I used the torrent, it downloaded
> > without issue via ctorrent.
> >
> > Running
> >
> > ctorrent path/to/torrent/file.torrent
> >
> > will download the torrent's data to the working directory, tie up the
> > active tty/terminal emulator tab with some hard to parse information
> > about the progress, and seed for 72 hours once the download is
> > complete.
> >
> > ctorrent -d /path/to/torrent/file.torrent
> >
> > Will download the data to the working directory, run ctorrent as a
> > deamon, and seed for 72 hours once the download is complete.
> >
> > ctorrent -c /path/to/torrent/file.torrent
> >
> > will do a hash check on the data(which it assumes is in the working
> > directory) and print out the progress of each file and the overall
> > progress(inchunks download out of chunks total and as a percentage).
> > This as no impact on the deamonized instance running in the
> > background.
> >
> > I generally do ctorrent -d on the torrent file in my downloads
> > directory occasionally using ctorrent -c to check progress... I then
> > have a bash script that uses a function to run ctorrent -d with extra
> > options to skip an initial hash check and seed for 1000 hours(because
> > ctorrent, as far as I know, lacks a seed forever option and 1000 hours
> > is long enough I'm unlikely to ever go long enough without rebooting
> > to need to run the script at anytime other than immediately after
> > reboot) on all the torrent files in the working directory, cds to all
> > the directories with torrents in them, and calls that function).
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/25/23, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > I downloaded the tracker with wget, but transmission-cli couldn't get a
> > > port it wanted to use so couldn't do the transfer for some reason.  I
> > > tried running transmission-remote --exit earlier both as user and as root
> > > and wasn't allowed to do that since I hadn't logged in.
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
> > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > >
> > >> Don't know whats going wrong.
> > >> Try it in two steps (both commands as one line).
> > >> Download the tracker file:
> > >>
> > >> wget
> > >> "http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V9.1CD-2021-01-25-EN.torrent";
> > >>
> > >> Download the data to desired directory (-w PATH):
> > >>
> > >> transmission-cli -w ~/tmp KNOPPIX_V9.1CD-2021-01-25-EN.torrent
> > >>
> > >> This worked for me testing it only a minute ago.
> > >> HTH
> > >> guenter
> > >>
> > >> Am 25.08.23 um 15:18 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
> > >> > Interesting, I only got 1 for an error value and that's good to know 
> > >> > for
> > >> > writing scripts.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> > >> > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
> > >> > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
> > >> >
> > >> > On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> I got error 404 when using that url in lftp and transmission-cli 
> > >> >> simply
> > >> >> failed to download.  What I'm going to do next to help my learning is
> > >> >> to
> > >> >> run it in lftp on a single line and then capture the error value that
> > >> >> returns with $?.  This way I can improve my own script writing.
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> --
> > >> >> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
> > >> >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > >> >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
> > >> >> Please use in that order."
> > >> >> Ed Howdershelt 1940.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>> And the torrent for the CD image (668 megabytes only versus above DVD
> > >> >>> image of
> > >> >>> 4.37 GB) is here:
> > >> >>> http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V9.1CD-2021-01-25-EN.torrent
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>>> Am 25.08.23 um 10:57 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
> > >> >>>>>> Has anyone got a download that can download the latest english
> > >> >>>>>> version
> > >> >>>>>> of
> > >> >>>>>> microknoppix?  Everyone of the mirrors only has german text on it
> > >> >>>>>> and I
> > >> >>>>>> didn't study that language enough to understand the website's
> > >> >>>>>> content.
> > >> >>>>>> I'm having better luck downloading through bittorrent these days
> > >> >>>>>> than
> > >> >>>>>> with
> > >> >>>>>> other downloaders given the low grade of verizon fios 
> > >> >>>>>> connectivity.
> > >> >>>>>> wget for instance is downloading iso's that fail sha256sum -c 
> > >> >>>>>> tests
> > >> >>>>>> once
> > >> >>>>>> downloaded and it does that persistently.
> > >> >>>
> > >> --
> > >> .
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