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Here's a BitTorrent package for Slackware.
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Note that we don't ship either wxGTK or wxPython, which are needed for the
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bittorrent-console script. I built and installed these, and couldn't justify
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the huge size (and assorted build problems) in order to enable an ugly little
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dialog box. But feel free to grab those sources and knock yourself out!
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I've included a simple script and mailcap entry to allow using the curses
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based downloader instead, which will work just the same as the GUI version
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but with a lot less library overhead required. For Mozilla, Netscape, and
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other browsers that read /etc/mailcap, once you've installed this package
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BitTorrent should work right out of the box. If your browser doesn't use
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/etc/mailcap, you can set it up to use /usr/bin/bittorrent-xterm as the
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helper application for the MIME type application/x-bittorrent.
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If you're a command-line user, you may also consider using bittorrent-curses
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manually. Here's how:
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1. Download the .torrent file into your download directory.
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2. At the command line, use the curses version of BitTorrent to download:
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bittorrent-curses some-big-file.torrent
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This should start the download and bring up a status screen where you can
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monitor the download (and upload) progress.
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Have fun!
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- P.
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