From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:45:57 +0000
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 2:27 pm, Martin Brandt wrote:
> Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake
> 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5.
> extracted the files (to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES) untarred
> BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 then i added "application/x-bittorrent;
> /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/BitTorrent-3.3/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n
> "$DISPLAY"" like the install file says. So i try to dl some torrent,
> Mozilla detects it when i click the torrent (open with Bittorrent etc) but
> when i do it just dls the script of the torrent in Download Manager.
>
> When i extracted the rpm other files were extracted other than
> BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2,
> BitTorrent-3.3-maketorrent-1.2.patch.bz2
> BitTorrent-3.3-man.tar.bz2
> BitTorrent-3.3-nonag.patch.bz2
> and 3 icons
>
> do i need to install these also? there is nothing in the install readme
> from BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 saying i need them...
>
Is there a particular reason why you are using a .src rpm? Although biitorrent is written in python and does not need compiling, the .src.rpm is compressed and as you see it contains patches that need to be applied.
It is much easier to install a normal RPM. I got my bittorrent from here http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/Mandrake/9.2/ It works great. No need to do anything. Just install it.
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