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svalee

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Registered: 2019-01-20

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Can't download arch with rtorrent

So I've tried to download arch via magnet link from here

https://www.archlinux.org/download/

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1d378e95a2319165a82104c2e9f5a1868b61ec09&dn=archlinux-2020.10.01-x86_64.iso

and also by downloading the torrent file and adding it to the rtorrent, but it keeps throwing me this error:

Could not create download: Could not find any trackers

The others torrent files works okay. What could be the issue here?

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Can't download arch with rtorrent

Not sure, but a quick peek in the .torrent file suggests all peers in it seed over http .
transmission also doesn't show trackers  for the magnet link.

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GaKu999

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From: US/Eastern

Registered: 2020-06-21

Posts: 696

Re: Can't download arch with rtorrent

You need to add (for your sake) a default tracker and dht node, since rtorrent does not have a default, thus {tracker,node}less torrents lie there doing nothing.

There are a couple github issues with the steps already, the summary is sort like this:

# Default tracker
method.insert = d.add_tracker, simple|private, "d.tracker.insert=\"10\", \"udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce\""
# Default DHT node
method.insert = d.add_node, simple|private, "dht.add_node=dht.libtorrent.org:25401"
...
# Add default tracker to new torrents
method.set_key = event.download.inserted_new, tracker_insert, ((d.add_tracker))
# Schedule addition of default dht node
schedule2 = dht_add_node, 15, 0, ((d.add_node))

Sometimes if you restart rtorrent you loose the tracker, in that case since the method is there, just "select" the torrent, do ctrl+x, enter d.add_tracker= and tadaa, the tracker was added.

Last edited by GaKu999 (2020-10-31 20:48:52)

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