I downloaded the tracker with wget, but transmission-cli couldn't get a port it wanted to use so couldn't do the transfer for some reason. I tried running transmission-remote --exit earlier both as user and as root and wasn't allowed to do that since I hadn't logged in. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Don't know whats going wrong. > Try it in two steps (both commands as one line). > Download the tracker file: > > wget > "http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V9.1CD-2021-01-25-EN.torrent"; > > Download the data to desired directory (-w PATH): > > transmission-cli -w ~/tmp KNOPPIX_V9.1CD-2021-01-25-EN.torrent > > This worked for me testing it only a minute ago. > HTH > guenter > > Am 25.08.23 um 15:18 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion: > > Interesting, I only got 1 for an error value and that's good to know for > > writing scripts. > > > > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > >> I got error 404 when using that url in lftp and transmission-cli simply > >> failed to download. What I'm going to do next to help my learning is to > >> run it in lftp on a single line and then capture the error value that > >> returns with $?. This way I can improve my own script writing. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > >> Please use in that order." > >> Ed Howdershelt 1940. > >> > >> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > >> > >>> And the torrent for the CD image (668 megabytes only versus above DVD > >>> image of > >>> 4.37 GB) is here: > >>> http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V9.1CD-2021-01-25-EN.torrent > >>> > >>>>> Am 25.08.23 um 10:57 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion: > >>>>>> Has anyone got a download that can download the latest english version > >>>>>> of > >>>>>> microknoppix? Everyone of the mirrors only has german text on it and I > >>>>>> didn't study that language enough to understand the website's content. > >>>>>> I'm having better luck downloading through bittorrent these days than > >>>>>> with > >>>>>> other downloaders given the low grade of verizon fios connectivity. > >>>>>> wget for instance is downloading iso's that fail sha256sum -c tests > >>>>>> once > >>>>>> downloaded and it does that persistently. > >>> > -- > . > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list