bittorent client for gentoo? which one?

forever · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

perhaps - for now I'm fully satisfied with azureus client and I will follow the old technicians' saying: don't repair something which is NOT broken :>
Or other one: "better" is always an enemy of "good"

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yakapiece · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

I've never been completely happy with Azureus. I would rather something in gtk/qt - even a good command prompt where I could drop the torrent into a directory and in a day or two have what I need. Azureus was never stable, I would leave a workstation running 80+ days and Azureus would crash numerous times... however, its the best I've found in portage.

djpearman · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Germany

I used Azureus for quite a while, but disliked its dependence on Java and the huge demand on system resources.

Switched to KTorrent 2 months ago and am loving it. I just like it's simplicity, the integrated search and the small system resource usage. It's still being developed and as such doesn't really deserve 1.x status, but it works for me (on 4 different machines). And my not-so-powerful system is still usable while I'm bittorrenting

yakapiece · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

but it still depends on kde libraries. For those who run kde thats not bad, but those that are -gnome -kde might shy away.

lovedaddy · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 58 Location: UK

Desktop usage - KTorrent
Shell / Cli - rtorrent

I love them!

forever · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

I will check rtorrent - that can be good:) I like console programs
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direwolf · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject:

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direwolf · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject:

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Noyan · Apprentice Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 212

never seen a hot app like rufus on win or lin before...awsome.

and can anyone update rufus ebuild to latest version?using 0.61 but latest is 0.7

tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

Noyan · Apprentice Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 212

tnkx gettin ebuild

Edit : everthing is k tnkx for the ebuild

direwolf · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject:

direwolf · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

bexamous2 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 80

I think rtorrent is perfect, maybe it coudl be better if it would handle starting/stopping torrents based on rules (how many seeds/leechers, amount uploaded, how old it is). But other htan that it does everything I want. You need the newest (still masked) client to have it automatically load torrents put in some folder you choose. You also have to setup the session folder in the .rtorrentrc file so when you quit and reload rtorrent it starts up the previous files.

nbvcxz · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 379 Location: Kraków / PL

I installed Rufus (previously 0.6.1) 0.7.0 and both versions give me the same erro:

direwolf · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

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bexamous2 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 80

No next time you start rtorrent no torrents will be loaded (torrent list will be blank), you will have to manually load them again, at which time rtorrent will hash the files that it has downloaded so far and continue downloading... its just extra work to have to reload all the torrents you had running.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/file/trunk/rtorrent/doc/rtorrent.rc?rev=629

That is the example config... you have to create it for some reason I think.

# Default session directory. Make sure you don't run multiple instance
# of rtorrent using the same session directory. Perhaps using a
# relative path?
#session = ./session

# Watch a directory for new torrents, and stop those that have been
# deleted.
#schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=./watch/*.torrent
#schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=

lovedaddy · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 58 Location: UK

bexamous2 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 80

Well I'm not going to try getting rid of the session directory but I'm pretty sure you still need it. If you don't have a session directory how will rtorrent know the progress of torrents when it loads? It will have to hash each torrent every time it starts, at least I'm pretty sure. I remember azurues always had 2 .torrent files for everything... one was .torrent one was .torrent.bak.

Well just looking at the session direcotry and the watch directory the file sizes are different.. cannot just be the same file in each.