It is that time again. Time for the Plucker seeds and mirrors to
help us redistribute a new Plucker release... this time version 1.8! This is
the latest in the "stable" series of Plucker releases. I have taken the time
to convert all of the .bz2 files to .zip also, and made .torrent versions of
those for users who do not know how to unpack a .bz2 file or aren't sure of
which file to download.
Once all of the seeds are populated, and I can see the BitTorrent
tracker acknowledge them all, I will activate the news article and links to
download them from the main website and other locations.
For those who don't know the procedure yet, here are the steps:
1.) Download the BitTorrent client[1] for your OS.
2.) Unpack and install that first
3.) Download the Plucker zip-o-torrents file[2]
4.) Unpack that into an empty directory with about 100M free space
5.) Run your BitTorrent "multi" client across ALL of the torrents in
the directory you just unpacked them into, by passing it the ame
of the directory with these torrents in it. If you are using nux
or Unix, this is called 'btlaunchmany' or 'btlaunchmanycurses'
if you want to see all the files at once (make sure your window
is resized large nough, or you will get Python errors from
curses). If you unpacked the .torrents into /var/lib/plucker,
you would run the client as follows:
btlaunchmany /var/lib/plucker/
If you have set it up correctly, you should see your "seed" start
downloading all of the releases into the directory specified, and then begin
sending pieces upstream (uploading) to the requesting other seeds and
clients.
Please note: running BitTorrent as a client, or a seed *DOES NOT*,
in any way, open your system or data up for viewing by any other seed or
clients. It will only send pieces of the files specified by the .torrent
files you have downloaded and pointed to when you launched your client.
BitTorrent is not a "downloader", so please respect that in order
for the system to work, you MUST keep your BitTorrent client running after
all of the files have been downloaded. It only works, when there are peers
on the network, actively sending bits of the files.
If you download what you want, and close your BitTorrent client,
NOBODY benefits, except you, and that isn't exactly embracing the community
spirit.
If you have any questions, problems, concerns, or other issues,
please let me know. Also, if you choose to download these files with
BitTorrent, and want to share them up for other users over http or ftp,
please let me know the URL _directly_, and I will link to it from the main
website downloads page.
Thanks again everyone for helping out, and keep on Plucking!
[1] BitTorrent: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
[2] Zip-o-Torrents: http://downloads.plkr.org/plkr.org.torrents.zip
md5sum: d4266da0c90621238e826fbed12d4cbc plkr.org.torrents.zip
(74,921 bytes)
d.
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