Comments on: Linux > Command line BitTorrent client

By: Prescilla

Prescilla — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:14:44 +0000

Hello, thank you for this info but I can’t seem to make it work. When I tried bittorrent-curses the message was:

bittorrent-curses: command not found

I am sure that it is installed. Can you tell me what’s wrong?

When I tried to install it again, here’s the message:

sudo apt-get install python-bittorrent
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
python-bittorrent is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

Please help.

By: Taps

Taps — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:57:29 +0000

” —————————————————————————————————–
| file: Haunted Manor 2- Queen of Death CE.rar |
| size: 751,689,629 (716.9 M) |
| dest: /home/tapas/Haunted Manor 2- Queen of Death CE.rar |
| progress: _________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| status: connecting to peers (0.0%) |
| speed: 0 B/s down – 0 B/s up |
| totals: 0.0 M down – 0.0 M up |
| error(s): [23:24:57] Problem connecting to tracker – HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable ”
how can i get rid of this problem??

By: keith

keith — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:52:17 +0000

hi I’m new in linux ,anyone can help me to provide me website to download operating system.appreciate your help..

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:16:04 +0000

This wget link is old, a working new one would be http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/archive/bittorrent_5.0.9_python2.5.deb

By: balou

balou — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:40:24 +0000

the new url is
http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/archive/BitTorrent-5.2.2-1-Python2.4.noarch.rpm

By: stib

stib — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:43:18 +0000

Another good client for the command line is transmission. Very simple to use and light weight too.

By: SathiyaMoorthy

SathiyaMoorthy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:30:42 +0000

This URL says error: http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/bittorrent_5.0.3_python2.4.deb

By: hayden

hayden — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:40:33 +0000

http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-5.3-GPL.tar.gz

By: centguy

centguy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:57:19 +0000

Nice. tried “yum install bittorrrent” on CentOS 5.2 and it just works !!

Thanks for this arttcle!

By: TQuang

TQuang — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:35:33 +0000

I really resolved that!

Step1: install RPMforge and config it at here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

Step2: yum install there dependences or
yum install *torrent*

My site: x3x.ath.cx
Good luck!

By: dev

dev — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:02:27 +0000

I use screen on remote box to keep an instance of btlaunchmanycurses active all the time. I just scp torrent files to specified directory, and then rm them and scp completed downloads back to my PC. It has worked perfect for me but now I have problem. TPB and other sites are starting to use magnet links. So my question is…
Do you know any CLI p2p client, that handles magnet links?

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:31:28 +0000

yum install bittorrent

Simplest, and easiest way to get the job done. (Only works on Red Hat / Fedora Core / Cent OS Linux maybe more)

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:11:31 +0000

How to start the bittorrentc-console as a seed?
where should i put the completed file so that it can be seen by the program?
Many thanks.

By: Jaysunn

Jaysunn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:06:38 +0000

This is great. Thanks for this great post.

Jaysunn

By: SxN

SxN — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:08:23 +0000

Hi,

I am facing some issues when attempting to use bittorent-curses (or -console, same story):

# python bittorrent-curses.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "bittorrent-curses.py", line 19, in from BitTorrent.translation import _ File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BitTorrent/__init__.py", line 49, in from BitTorrent.platform import get_temp_subdir, get_dot_dir, is_frozen_exe File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BitTorrent/platform.py", line 120, in from BTL.defer import ThreadedDeferred File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BTL/defer.py", line 54, in DeferredQueue = defer.DeferredQueue AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DeferredQueue'

If I’m going in defer.py and commenting out the offending line (the DeferredQueue variable doesn’t seem to be used anyway), I end up with:

# python bittorrent-curses.py /mnt/sda5/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py:11: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module rand: This Python has API version 1013, module rand has version 1012. import rand, crypto, SSL, tsafe /mnt/sda5/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py:11: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module crypto: This Python has API version 1013, module crypto has version 1012. import rand, crypto, SSL, tsafe /mnt/sda5/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py:11: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module SSL: This Python has API version 1013, module SSL has version 1012. import rand, crypto, SSL, tsafe Traceback (most recent call last): File "bittorrent-curses.py", line 34, in from BitTorrent.MultiTorrent import MultiTorrent, TorrentAlreadyRunning File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BitTorrent/MultiTorrent.py", line 25, in from BitTorrent.Torrent import Feedback, Torrent File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BitTorrent/Torrent.py", line 32, in from BitTorrent.ConnectionManager import ConnectionManager File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BitTorrent/ConnectionManager.py", line 21, in from BitTorrent.RawServer_twisted import Handler File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BitTorrent/RawServer_twisted.py", line 56, in from BTL.ConnectionRateLimitReactor import connectionRateLimitReactor File "/mnt/sda6/install/BitTorrent-5.2.2/BTL/ConnectionRateLimitReactor.py", line 23, in from twisted.internet import error, address, abstract ImportError: cannot import name address

Here I cannot comment out lines. as error is used later in the program.

What should I do?

Thanks for advise,
SxN

By: fricker88

fricker88 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:57:18 +0000

really nice work, helped me alot, many thanks :)

By: roger

roger — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:08:55 +0000

you’ll need to download and install twisted [google for it]. You may also need to download and install
“pycrypto” if that errs, too
http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html
GL!

By: jamal

jamal — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:40:11 +0000

File “/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses”, line 19, in ?
from BitTorrent.translation import _
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/__init__.py”, line 49, in ?
from BitTorrent.platform import get_temp_subdir, get_dot_dir, is_frozen_exe
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/platform.py”, line 120, in ?
from BTL.defer import ThreadedDeferred
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BTL/defer.py”, line 15, in ?
from twisted.internet import defer
ImportError: No module named twisted.internet

i got this after i finish install the bittorent
please help

thanks

By: Sled

Sled — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:56:00 +0000

For reference for anyone else in pain of my problem;

[root@localhost Download]# rpm -ivh BitTorrent-5.0.3-1-Python2.4.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/bin/python2.4 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1.noarch
python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1.noarch
python-psyco is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1.noarch
python-twisted >= 2.0 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1.noarch
python-zopeinterface is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1.noarch
wxPython >= 2.6 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1.noarch

Try this ling instead;
[root@localhost Download]# rpm -ivh –nodeps BitTorrent-5.0.3-1-Python2.4.noarch.rpm

Then use by;
/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses http://www.yourtorrentfile.com/file.torrent

By: Mauko Quiroga

Mauko Quiroga — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:13:52 +0000

Hi.

i got this error msg:

>>> unable to setrlimit not allowed to raise maximum limit

Any idea?