ctorrent is useable on the command line. -- 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 Sat, 26 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Does ctorrent use a console or g.u.i. interface? > I managed to download the torrent using lftp but it may not have come down > cleanly or completely since after copying iso to flash drive the iso would > not boot. > > > -- 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 don't know how to troubleshoot Transmission, and I can't recall if I > > used Firefox to download the iso directly or used the torrent the last > > time I downloaded Knoppix, but if I used the torrent, it downloaded > > without issue via ctorrent. > > > > Running > > > > ctorrent path/to/torrent/file.torrent > > > > will download the torrent's data to the working directory, tie up the > > active tty/terminal emulator tab with some hard to parse information > > about the progress, and seed for 72 hours once the download is > > complete. > > > > ctorrent -d /path/to/torrent/file.torrent > > > > Will download the data to the working directory, run ctorrent as a > > deamon, and seed for 72 hours once the download is complete. > > > > ctorrent -c /path/to/torrent/file.torrent > > > > will do a hash check on the data(which it assumes is in the working > > directory) and print out the progress of each file and the overall > > progress(inchunks download out of chunks total and as a percentage). > > This as no impact on the deamonized instance running in the > > background. > > > > I generally do ctorrent -d on the torrent file in my downloads > > directory occasionally using ctorrent -c to check progress... I then > > have a bash script that uses a function to run ctorrent -d with extra > > options to skip an initial hash check and seed for 1000 hours(because > > ctorrent, as far as I know, lacks a seed forever option and 1000 hours > > is long enough I'm unlikely to ever go long enough without rebooting > > to need to run the script at anytime other than immediately after > > reboot) on all the torrent files in the working directory, cds to all > > the directories with torrents in them, and calls that function). > > > > > > > > On 8/25/23, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list