lightweight download torrent software?

Dogs1985 · 2010-01-28 09:30:28

is that any lightweight software that download torrent? because when i upgrade transmission-cli, that software would download anything.

ijanos · 2010-01-28 09:51:16

Deluge can run as a daemon, and you can connect to it with several frontends (gtk2, commadnline, web). There are more lightweight torrent clinets like the purly commandline rtorrent.
But if transmission is configured properly and it wont download anything then its probably not the programs fault, maybe your ISP is blocking torrent traffic.

JackH79 · 2010-01-28 10:02:00

Get rtorrent. It's by far the lightest (well, as far as I know) and very easy to use.

Dogs1985 · 2010-01-28 10:20:31

ijanos wrote:

Deluge can run as a daemon, and you can connect to it with several frontends (gtk2, commadnline, web). There are more lightweight torrent clinets like the purly commandline rtorrent.
But if transmission is configured properly and it wont download anything then its probably not the programs fault, maybe your ISP is blocking torrent traffic.

but the port already open. i don't know why when start software, it download, suddenly stop. open whole day also didn't download anything.

Dogs1985 · 2010-01-28 10:22:28

before update software i using web interface with no problem. when i update, need to wait long time then show the web interface.

gajo · 2010-01-28 10:53:57

JackH79 wrote:

Get rtorrent. It's by far the lightest (well, as far as I know) and very easy to use.

seconded

dmz · 2010-01-28 10:54:00

JackH79 wrote:

Get rtorrent. It's by far the lightest (well, as far as I know) and very easy to use.

I think btpd beats it when it comes to lightweightness. Nothing beats rtorrent when it comes to functionality though.

lolilolicon · 2010-01-28 11:01:47

rtorrent if nice.
Or you can even use aria2c...

humanzoo · 2010-01-28 11:02:30

aria2 can do torrents pretty well (including magnet uri's, encryption, dht, downloading specific files from the torrent, etc.) Combine it with tmux or screen and you're all set. It'll also do http, ftp, and metalink.

thestinger · 2010-01-28 11:32:01

Another vote for rtorrent, it's very lightweight but it manages to have all of the functionality of a more heavyweight client (PEX, DHT, encryption, etc.). Before I found rtorrent I was still using utorrent in wine .

kaptenen · 2010-01-28 12:22:51

rtorrent! You can find rtorrent with the colorpatch in the AUR.

whacath · 2010-01-28 12:22:56

dmz wrote:

JackH79 wrote:
Get rtorrent. It's by far the lightest (well, as far as I know) and very easy to use.
I think btpd beats it when it comes to lightweightness. Nothing beats rtorrent when it comes to functionality though.

Nice! just have to wait until the next version comes out with DHT and then its a go. :thumbsup:

JuseBox · 2010-01-28 12:43:58

Yea I would have to say rtorrent as well. I set a watch folder and automatically update my torrents on the fly.

dmz · 2010-01-28 12:46:41

humanzoo wrote:

aria2 can do torrents pretty well (including magnet uri's, encryption, dht, downloading specific files from the torrent, etc.) Combine it with tmux or screen and you're all set. It'll also do http, ftp, and metalink.

Yey, aria2 was very nice, thank you sir.

siriusb · 2010-01-28 13:17:05

rtorrent. Simple, and the best.

ploub · 2010-01-28 15:11:44

rtorrent! http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02 … ike-a-pro/<- useful link

Dogs1985 · 2010-01-28 21:27:01

i using another torrent software like deluge, it directly downloading. is that transmission problem?

JezdziecBezNicka · 2010-01-28 22:31:47

runlevel 3 -> cpufreq powersave -> rtorrent

Things get downloaded over night while my computer doesn't even need to start the fan :)

n0dix · 2010-01-29 00:13:14

Dogs1985 wrote:

is that any lightweight software that download torrent? because when i upgrade transmission-cli, that software would download anything.

Try to run the program in a console and post the output.

Trasmission is very good program for torrents. I was using for a year or something, it is much more lightweight than Azureus.

graysky · 2010-02-06 14:03:51

ijanos wrote:

Deluge can run as a daemon, and you can connect to it with several frontends (gtk2, commadnline, web). There are more lightweight torrent clinets like the purly commandline rtorrent.
But if transmission is configured properly and it wont download anything then its probably not the programs fault, maybe your ISP is blocking torrent traffic.

+1 for deluge. It's not as light as rtorrent but it does have a daemon/client design and as jjanos said, there are several clients you can use to connect to the daemon including a shell client, but also a very good web client. For more, see this deluge wiki page. Also the FAQ is useful too.

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