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#1 2005-03-22 22:27:53

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#2 2005-03-23 16:34:59

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

Cool, I just came across this client on the weekend and was thinking about giving it a try.

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#3 2005-03-23 18:36:06

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

yeah, I came across it recently too - is this new?

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#4 2005-03-23 18:47:45

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It has a few advantages over ctorrent smile

* Multiple downloads in 1 screen
* direct (http) downloading of torrents
* throttling

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#5 2005-03-23 19:09:37

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

does it have a sort-of remote feature... so I can start up one terminal and then just add torrents to that w/o starting up new instances?

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#6 2005-03-23 19:11:22

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

Yes, its a great improvement on ctorrent imo, the multiple torrent interface is one of its best features (throttling didnt seem to work as I thought it would, or I got it wrong (more likely)).

Just one small thing, its probably better if you install rtorrent into /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin, as it seems to be the arch standard.  8)


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#7 2005-03-24 08:21:17

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

phrakture wrote:

does it have a sort-of remote feature... so I can start up one terminal and then just add torrents to that w/o starting up new instances?

Press backspace and you can add .torrent URL's or files to the running instance smile

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#8 2005-03-24 10:49:24

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

us btlaunchmanycurses.py and move the torrent file into your downloading directory by whichever means you want.
is there any advantage of rtorrent over the shadow bittorrent client?

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#9 2005-03-24 13:38:50

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

cmp wrote:

is there any advantage of rtorrent over the shadow bittorrent client?

hmm, it's not written in python? (jk, don't want to have a holy way)

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#10 2005-03-25 08:05:26

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corky wrote:

Yes, its a great improvement on ctorrent imo, the multiple torrent interface is one of its best features (throttling didnt seem to work as I thought it would, or I got it wrong (more likely)).

It works fine here; it limits your upload speed. Set it to a low value and you will see your speeds slowly dropping to that value smile

Just one small thing, its probably better if you install rtorrent into /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin, as it seems to be the arch standard.  8)

I have no clue what the archstandards are; are they documented anywhere? I am changing it anyway tho wink

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#11 2005-03-25 15:59:56

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

yeah, packages should be installed to /usr...
I put libtorrent and ctorrent in my repo too - it's fun

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#12 2005-04-08 14:45:59

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can you resume torrents started with the shadow client?

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#13 2005-04-08 17:31:24

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Sure you can, as long as you still have the torrent file.  I have everything in a directory called ~/Torrent, so I just cd in that directory and call rtorrent.  I used rtorrent this way to to finish downloading a couple of bitshadow torrents that stalled when my wm crashed.  Worked like a charm.

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#14 2005-04-08 17:35:40

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

you can also use btdownloadcurses.py from the shadow client....

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#15 2005-04-08 18:11:32

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

I used the shadow client to start the torrent and wanted to try rtorrent, but it took long time to do a hash check (ok, nothing to wory about with 9.2 gb), was very unresponsive and used allmost all system resources (this is something to wory about).
so I'm now again using the shadow client.

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#16 2005-04-12 17:55:11

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

Some users are not subscribed to the mailing list - others are not forum users...
There's no real harm done.

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#17 2005-04-12 20:19:31

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I am glad AUR is live now smile

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#18 2005-04-13 13:29:11

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

IIIITTTS AALLLIIIVVEE, IITTS AALLIIVVEE

*Instert Frankenstein theme tune here* lol

Sorry, couldn't resist :?

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#19 2005-06-24 00:41:16

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

Well, I got sick of having to have separate terminals for each torrent file as in ctorrent and also since Spider's and starcrow.starzinger.net/~vidvandre/arch/  are both out of date (current version is .0.2.5), I decided to try and build my own packages, which I sucessfully did. woohoo.

I don't have a site to upload these to unfortunately, I do have a geocities account, but that's not very professional.  So would it be possible to become the official maintainer for these files?  If not, that's ok.

thanks
reid

nevermind, i'll just upload them to the AUR.. i'm new to arch.

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#20 2005-06-24 02:18:45

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

how about some sort of ip filtering to block certain unwanted ips? stuff that safepeer does for Azureus. Does anybody know?


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#21 2005-06-24 02:26:44

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

rtorrent does not have that option, but at the very least it is a lightweight and coded in C++.  Also, it's under heavy development, so maybe this feature would be added later.

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#22 2006-12-11 18:02:32

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

The site specified in the mailing list post is down. Could someone tell this lowly noob how I can install rtorrent (I don't want to do it manually since I want pacman to be aware of it). Will it get added to the repositories at some point?


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#23 2006-12-11 21:21:11

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Re: [new] rtorrent and libtorrent

rtorrent is now in the community repo. Uncomment the community repo in your pacman.conf and install with pacman :
pacman -Sy rtorrent

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