BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, and of a free software implementation of that protocol.
The BitTorrent client is a computer program developed by BitTorrent, Inc. used to download and upload files via the BitTorrent protocol. You can download python based command line BitTorrent client download for Linux/BSD/Mac OS X/UNIX link oses. This is quite useful, if you would like to download file remotely over SSH session. bittorrent.com offers bittorrent client in .deb (Debian Linux) or rpm (RedHat/Fedora Core/CentOS Linux) file formats.
To use the bittorrent in command line one you need to use command bittorrent-console or bittorrent-curses (see below for examples).
Step # 1: Find Python version
Make sure you download file according to your python version. Type following command to find out python version:
$ python -V
Output:
Python 2.4.2
Step # 2: Download bittorrent client
Use wget to download bittorrent client
Download bittorrent client for Debian Linux:
$ wget http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/bittorrent_5.0.3_python2.4.deb
Download bittorrent clientFor Red Hat / Fedora Core / Cent OS Linux
$ wget http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-5.0.3-1-Python2.4.noarch.rpm
Step # 3: Linux Install BitTorrent client
First login as a root user (use su or sudo command). If you are using Debian Linux, use dpkg command install bittorrent client
# dpkg -i bittorrent_5.0.3_python2.4.deb
If you are using Red Hat / Fedora Core /Cent OS Linux, use rpm command install bittorrent client:
# rpm -ivh BitTorrent-5.0.3-1-Python2.4.noarch.rpm
Step # 4: Start using or downloading files
Use bittorrent client as follows:
$ /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses 'http://www.some.org/DesktopBSD.iso.torrent'
OR
$ bittorrent-curses 'http://www.some.org/DesktopBSD.iso.torrent'
OR
$ /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses '/path/to/file.torrent'
$ bittorrent-console '/path/to/file.torrent'
$ /usr/bin/bittorrent-console 'http://www.some.org/DesktopBSD.iso.torrent'
Tips about using and Troubleshooting BitTorrent client
(A) If you get [Errno 2] No such file or directory, you need to use wget or lynx command to download .torrent file to local hard drive first. For example
$ bittorrent-curses 'http://www.mininova.org/get/some_file[222].torrent'
First download download .torrent file using any one of the following method:
$ lynx 'http://www.mininova.org/get/some_file[222].torrent'
When prompted save .torrent file to a hard-disk. Another option is use wget to download .torrent file:
$ wget 'http://www.mininova.org/get/some_file[222].torrent'
Now start the downloading as follows:
$ bittorrent-curses 'some_file[222].torrent'
(B) If you get error ‘This seems to be an old Python version which does not support detecting the filesystem encoding. Assuming ‘ascii’, then upgrade your python version to 2.4.xx:
Debian user upgrade python version using apt-get command:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install python2.4
Red Hat Linux user try out:
# up2date python2.4
Fedora Linux user try out:
# yum install python2.4
Remember if you have both versions (python v2.3 and v2.4) installed, you need to run bittorent client as follows:
$ python2.4 /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses '/path/to/file.torrent'
Command line BitTorrent client should work with other UNIX like operating systems such as FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris etc (as long as you have Python it should work).
The current client enables a range of features including multiple parallel downloads. It also intermediates peering between itself, source file servers (read as trackers) and other clients, thereby yielding great distribution efficiencies. The client also enables users to create and share torrent files. See help files for more information.
See also:
🐧 Get the latest tutorials on Linux, Open Source & DevOps via:
- RSS feed or Weekly email newsletter
- Share on Twitter • Facebook • 94 comments... add one ↓
| Category | List of Unix and Linux commands |
|---|---|
| File Management | cat |
| Firewall | Alpine Awall • CentOS 8 • OpenSUSE • RHEL 8 • Ubuntu 16.04 • Ubuntu 18.04 • Ubuntu 20.04 |
| Network Utilities | dig • host • ip • nmap |
| OpenVPN | CentOS 7 • CentOS 8 • Debian 10 • Debian 8/9 • Ubuntu 18.04 • Ubuntu 20.04 |
| Package Manager | apk • apt |
| Processes Management | bg • chroot • cron • disown • fg • jobs • killall • kill • pidof • pstree • pwdx • time |
| Searching | grep • whereis • which |
| User Information | groups • id • lastcomm • last • lid/libuser-lid • logname • members • users • whoami • who • w |
| WireGuard VPN | Alpine • CentOS 8 • Debian 10 • Firewall • Ubuntu 20.04 |
ok i have installed it but what is the proper command to tell it where to put the torrent that i want to download?
Can anybody help me resolve this issue with Bittorrent.
ERROR:
[16:10:37] Problem connecting to tracker –
[root@localhost Desktop]# netstat -an |grep -i 6881
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6881 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6881 0.0.0.0:*
[root@localhost Desktop]# netstat -an |grep -i 6889
[root@localhost Desktop]# python -V
Python 2.4.3
Here is full error description:
ERROR:
[16:10:37] Problem connecting to tracker –-
error: Failed dependencies:
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
what a mess! Windows 7 has no python
you’ve created a research project out of something so simple
all because you didn’t THINK
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.
this is shit.
apt-get install bittorrent
then you’re fucked up anyway cause it’s confusing, no damn tutorials about ssh torrent
” —————————————————————————————————–
| 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??
hi I’m new in linux ,anyone can help me to provide me website to download operating system.appreciate your help..
This wget link is old, a working new one would be http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/archive/bittorrent_5.0.9_python2.5.deb
Another good client for the command line is transmission. Very simple to use and light weight too.
This URL says error: http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/bittorrent_5.0.3_python2.4.deb
the new url is
http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/archive/BitTorrent-5.2.2-1-Python2.4.noarch.rpm
http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-5.3-GPL.tar.gz
Nice. tried “yum install bittorrrent” on CentOS 5.2 and it just works !!
Thanks for this arttcle!
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!
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?
yum install bittorrentSimplest, and easiest way to get the job done. (Only works on Red Hat / Fedora Core / Cent OS Linux maybe more)
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.
This is great. Thanks for this great post.
Jaysunn
Hi,
I am facing some issues when attempting to use bittorent-curses (or -console, same story):
# python bittorrent-curses.pyTraceback (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
really nice work, helped me alot, many thanks 🙂
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!
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
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
Hi.
i got this error msg:
>>> unable to setrlimit not allowed to raise maximum limit
Any idea?
try aria.
it can do http,ftp,torrent,multilinker.
i use it all the time…
The command line version is especially useful. This is the only reason why I still have a bittorrent installation on my system. Otherwise KTorrent is the best
For the install issues, just:
rpm -ivh http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-5.2.0-1-Python2.4.noarch.rpm –nodeps
Then run it via:
cd /usr/bin
./btdownloadcurses.py /path/to/torrent
Then you’ll get a screen like this:
file: National.Treasure.Book.of.Secrets.TS.DivX-LTT
size: 741,703,680 (707.3 MB)
dest: /usr/bin/National.Treasure.Book.of.Secrets.TS.DivX-LTT
speed: 174.8 KB/s down – 86.6 KB/s
| totals: 650.5 MB down – 130.5 MB up
| error(s):
HOW TO open ports from the command line in debian
I’m also getting the python-zopeinterface is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1 error
I do have a python-zope-interface package installed though. is this the same package?? I’m using Fedora Core 6
I found that under Fedora Core 6, the only way to get nohup to cooperate with this was to run the command:
nohup python /usr/bin/bittorrent-console –display_interval 60 path-to-torrentfile &
the tricks here being:
1) You need to set the display interval pretty high so that it doesnt flood your nohup.out with messages.
2) You need to explicitly execute this with python..
Thanks,
Rob Goretsky
No problems installing and using. No more guiding the wife through starting a download so I can use it when I get home from work.
Great post, thanks a lot!
I want to run effectively a torrent daemon which I can take up and down as I please. However using nohup and running bittorrent-curses in the background doesn’t seem to work. As soon I enter another command bittorrent-curses stops working.
Any advice?
I also have Python 2.4.4 and the only failed dependency is python-zopeinterface, which is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.7-1.noarch.
I have installed python-zope-interface which it seems is not the same thing. I have tried a python-zopeinterface from FC5 but does not work with my FC6.
Does anyone else have similar problems?
-sh-2.05b$ python2.4 /home/radon86/Download/BitTorrent-4.4.0/bittorrent-curses.py ‘Pirates_of_the_Caribbean.At_Worlds_End.TS.XViD_-_NL_Subs_srt_-^mininova.org^-.torrent’
——————————————————————————
| file: |
| size: |
| dest: |
| progress: |
| status: |
| dl speed: |
| ul speed: |
| sharing: |
| seeds: |
| peers: |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Traceback (most recent call last):———————————————
File “/home/radon86/Download/BitTorrent-4.4.0/bittorrent-curses.py”, line 445, in ?
curses_wrapper(dl.run)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.4/curses/wrapper.py”, line 44, in wrapper
return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
File “/home/radon86/Download/BitTorrent-4.4.0/bittorrent-curses.py”, line 349, in run
self.d = CursesDisplayer(scrwin, self.errlist, self.doneflag, reread, ulrate)
File “/home/radon86/Download/BitTorrent-4.4.0/bittorrent-curses.py”, line 117, in __init__
curses.use_default_colors()
_curses.error: use_default_colors() returned ERR
-sh-2.05b$
——————–
help me please
now i have install python 2.4.4
when i use rpm command to install bitcomment it’s show
-sh-2.05b$ 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
python >= 2.3 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1
python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1
python-crypto >= 2.0 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1
python-psyco is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1
python-twisted >= 2.0 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1
python-zopeinterface is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1
wxPython >= 2.6 is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.3-1
-sh-2.05b$
please slove my problem
simplistic. awesome. thanks.
I looking for software can run in my server ( not my computer ). So I can download file using torrent in my server and then when it completes, I download to my computer.
Do not blame me if my idea is bad!:D
Help me please!
Thanks.
Sorry .,
But after it’s work .. it gave me this messege
These errors occurred during execution:
[19:33:53] Could not load fastresume data: invalid literal for int(): 1167527459.0 Will perform full hash check.
[19:33:54] Aborting the torrent as it was rejected by the tracker while not connected to any peers. Message from the tracker: unregistered torrent
Install python v2.4
🙁
can any one help me
root@nasser [~/Python-2.5]# 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-crypto >= 2.0 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
??
root@nasser [~/Python-2.5]# python -V
Python 2.5
can any onw tell me ?? how to solve this problem ?
any idea why I get this error: Problem connecting to tracker – urlopen error (105, ‘No buffer space available’
Thanks,
Pass –minport –maxport option to change default port.
bittorrent-curses –minport 5000 –maxport 5100 ‘file.torrent’
How can i change the ports (6881 to 6889) that bittorrent are use?
Use screen utility to start multiple session.
You may also need to execute commands using nohup
I’m searcing for a way to remotely control any bittorrent client by ssh, meaning that I can see the download progress, stop it, add another download, etc.
Is it possible with the official BitTorrent? Do you know any other torrent client that can do this?
I get this error – Problem connecting to tracker – urlopen error 3, ‘Temporary failure in name resolution’
Just run same command it will automatically resume the job.
Thanks, excellent article.
I have a couple of doubts, though. I haven’t been able to resume downloading a previously stopped torrent.
I got this message, only once:
“These errors occurred during execution:
[10:56:02] Could not load fastresume data: Another program appears to have modified the file, or BitTorrent may have crashed last time it was run. Will perform full hash check.”
Do you have any tip for resuming? As it is now, every time I stop it I have to start all over again.
thanks, Emiliano
cool stuff
If python2.4 is installed then you should able to use bittorent.
BTW, why you are using RedHat 6.x? It is better to get new version aka Fedora Core 5 or 4 or better try Debian/Ubentu Linux.
great page
i have managed to instal python2.4 on my redhat6.2 based qube3, but can’t install bittorrent as (i think) it can’t find the updated python
tantilising!
and ideas anyone?
I got these messages, anyone can help me?
lw13n971:/usr/src# python2.4 /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses ‘/usr/src/test.torrent’
root : STDERR Traceback (most recent call last):
root : STDERR File “/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses”, line 31, in ?
root : STDERR from BitTorrent.MultiTorrent import MultiTorrent, TorrentAlreadyRunning
root : STDERR File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/MultiTorrent.py”, line 25, in ?
root : STDERR from BitTorrent.Torrent import Feedback, Torrent
root : STDERR File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/Torrent.py”, line 34, in ?
root : STDERR from BitTorrent.ConnectionManager import ConnectionManager
root : STDERR File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/ConnectionManager.py”, line 22, in ?
root : STDERR from BitTorrent.RawServer_twisted import Handler
root : STDERR File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/RawServer_twisted.py”, line 45, in ?
root : STDERR from twisted.python import threadable
root : STDERR ImportError: No module named twisted.python
lw13n971:/usr/src#
Hi,
I’d like to set up my console bittorrent to running only in some configured time. For example from 2 to 8 in the night. I now use cron ok no problem. But how to set up time how long launchmany-curses (I’m using it because I’ve a lot of torrent files) have to work ?
I know I can use kill but then on trackers connections isn’t well ended and I think there must be better way to achive this goal.
Greetings,
krutny
You need to first start screen session:
screen -S 1
Now start bittorent session:
bittorrent-curses ‘test.torrent’
You need to read man page of screen for more info and usage.
When i use screen bittorrent-curses ‘test.torrent’
I get [screen is terminating]..
How to fix this?
Type command to resume screen:
screen -r -d 11809.pts-0.server
How to close the screen completely?
[root@server html]# screen -r
There are several suitable screens on:
11809.pts-0.server (Detached)
20081.pts-0.server (Attached)
11582.pts-0.server (Detached)
Type “screen [-d] -r [pid.]tty.host” to resume one of them.
Press q to exit bittorent client. To exit screen command press CTRL+a+C
How to close program running in screen? The bittorrent.
Thank you 🙂
I had found btdownloadcurses on my machine, that worked as well.
Note also that an alternative to nohup is screen. You can run a command with screen like:
screen btdownloadcurses http://www.site.etc/to.torrent
press ctrl+a then d to detach from the process
you can then regain control by issueing
screen -r
Dan.
Ok. I just try out latest .deb file from official site and you are right it is broken. But I was able to run it via source code. Try out following 4 command it should work on any Linux computer.
Download source code
wget http://www.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-4.4.0.tar.gz
Untar code
tar -zxvf BitTorrent-4.4.0.tar.gz
Goto dirctory:
cd BitTorrent-4.4.00
Start GUI Client
./bittorrent
Start Console Client
./bittorrent-curses
Let me know if it works or not.
That is what I have been using :S
none of the /usr/bin/bittorrent* files run, all generate this error.
btdownloadgui however works fine, but I sometimes wish to start a transfer over ssh.
Dan.
Hi Dan,
It seems that some problem exists there for Debian if you are looking for GUI client try out azureus bittorent java client. If you don’t wanna use GUI client then above method should work for you.
Try out:
python2.4 /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses ‘path/to/bottorent-file’
azureus
Hi there, and thank you for a nice page.
I’m getting:
File “/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses”, line 18, in ?
and yet am using python2.4, my python is linked to 2.4 and I’ve tried explicitly running it as 2.4 as well… still no joy.
Any other explanations?
Dan.
Press q to exit/stop bittorrent client.
OR press CTRL + C to cancel command.
Otherwise login from other terminal (may be over ssh) and find out pid of bittorrent client and kill using kill command.
How do I stop torrents? I mean I have torrents downloading but what do I do (in SSH) to stop that torrent? I can’t seem to get to a command line either, it just keeps showing the information of speeds, % complete etc…
dl speed: 150.1 KB/s ul speed: 19.8 KB/s sharing: 0.167 (27.5 MB up / 164.5 MB down) seeds: 64 seen now, plus 0 distributed copies(1:99.9%, 2:98.6%, 3:91.6%) peers: 16 seen now
sad thing is that utorrent over cable is faster at over 200 KB/s
Hi,
It works, if you have this:
–
File “/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses”, line 18, in ?
from BitTorrent.platform import install_translation
ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.platform
–
Just check if your /usr/bin/python is linked with /usr/bin/python2.4
if not do:
1/ rm /usr/bin/python
2/ ln -s /usr/bin/python2.3 /usr/bin/python
3/ Enjoy
JJ
Run it as follows:
python2.4 /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses ‘/path/to/file.torrent’
OR
python2.4 /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses ‘http://somewhere.com/file.torrent’
>The python2.2 directory has a whole bunch of files in it, while the python2.4 directory only has a site-packages directory.
Hmm i have more than 500+ files in /usr/lib .. try to install python-all. If you are using Debian then it is really easy:
apt-get install python2.4
Above command should install all files.
I can’t seem to get this to work. I keep getting:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses”, line 18, in ?
from BitTorrent.platform import install_translation
ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.platform
If I check the python version with python -V I get Python 2.4.2
I have tried running the bittorrent command as both python and python2.4 and get the same error in both cases.
In /usr/local/bin I can see 2 files:
python & python2.4 both with the same size and timestamp.
In /usr/lib I have a python2.2 directory and a python2.4 directory.
The python2.2 directory has a whole bunch of files in it, while the python2.4 directory only has a site-packages directory.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both python2.4 and bittorrent with no success so far.
Any suggestions?
Wow nice speed 🙂
Thx!!!
Installed on my dedicated 😀
download rate: 55.7 KB/s
upload rate: 16.1 KB/s
share rating: 0.713 (19.1 MB up / 26.8 MB down)
seed status: 14 seen now, plus 2 distributed copies (3:99.6%, 4:96.5%, 5:85.9%)
peer status: 15 seen now
:DDDD
thanks was looking for both firewall rule and command line tool
Yup you need to open ports on firewall:
TCP/UDP 6881 to 6889 for bittorent client
If you have router based firewall then you need to enable port forwarding on router for above ports to your internal computes.
Do you need to open up any ports specifically on the firewall?
Cool after upgrading it to python 2.4, it worked, thanks a lot 🙂 Your site is worth a bookmark. Can u write about GUI BitTorrent clients …
Upgrade your version to python2.4, try
apt-get install python2.4
Then execute curses interface as follows:
$ python2.4 /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses ‘/path/to/file.torrent’
Hello
I’m getting following error I’m using /usr/bin/bittorrent-curses under Debian linux:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses”, line 17, in ?
from BitTorrent.platform import install_translation
ImportError: cannot import name install_translation
Any idea?
It should be in /usr/bin/ directory. Try as follows:
$ cd /usr/bin
$ ./btdownloadheadless.py path/to/file.torrent
You can also use following trick to find out path to btdownloadheadless.py
# dpkg –contents btclientfile.deb | grep btdownloadheadless.py
This is just what I need… but.. I download the .deb file and dpkg -i btclientfile.deb and I can’t find btdownloadheadless.py
You need to upgrade python version to avoid this warning. Once upgraded you should able to get rid of this problem
—
Rocky
Another question, I got a warning (guess it is not an error) saying that :
[13:57:00] Python failed to autodetect filesystem encoding. Using ‘ascii’ instead.
What should I do ?
Try no nohup command as follows:
nohup ./btdownloadheadless.py some_file[222].torrent &
nohup run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty i.e. it will run command even if you quit the session
Your post helps a lot.
I have tried using the command ./btdownloadcurse.py. I found that it is not possible to have it run as a background job ! Why ? Is it possible to run bittorrent jobs, either d/l or u/l in background ?
Panya
Cool, thanks for posting solution too. I’m sure it will help others who gets stuck up with such errors 😀
> ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.download
I had that error on my box and found this problem/solution:
– /usr/lib/python a link to /usr/lib/python2.2
– /usr/lib/python2.3 had been created during rpm install of BitTorrent and contained nothing but a dir /site-packages (belonging to BitTorrent
– copying that directory to /python2.2 fixed the problem
have fun
Very nice post, but i screwd it somehow 🙁
Here’s the error i got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/btdownloadheadless.py”, line 24, in ?
from BitTorrent.download import Feedback, Multitorrent
ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.download
Thanks for this! Torrents thru SSH == heaven 🙂
Also use btdownloadheadless.py (or curses) by itself to get the help output. Various command switches are taken. –max_upload_rate $INT –super-seeder $BOOLEAN – etc.
Okay it looks good to me thanks for pointing out it 🙂
1) Get it at URL
2) Read INSTALL file 🙂 for installation.
Try ctorrent, a c++ command line bt client.
Looking for a better command line client can select files from the torrent for downloading.
Very helpul thanks!
Fantastic post… deserves tons of comments.. a massive help 🙂