On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 18:06, Satish Balay wrote: > You can download bittorrent from http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ > > The links to shrike are at: http://f.moya.scarywater.net/ > > The source is all python - and there is no install required. so all > you need to do is - tar -xzf. But apparently there are some rpms > availabe > > http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html I downloaded the tarball in the end. The RPM at rpmfind.net is a Mandrake one and they clearly package python in a way incompatible with how RH do. > If you are concerned about security - you can run it from a different > account which has minimal privilidges on your machine (whatever that > would be). Good suggestion. Thanks for that. > I've used it behind my home NAT box - and it worked fine.. I guess it > can initiate all connections from the client box (even when it is > serving data to other hosts) The trouble is that I'm still not clear how to install BitTorrent. I downloaded the tarball and untarred it to ~/BitTorrent-3.2.1b/ - I was hoping that there'd be a make install method of installing, but no. I've read ~/BitTorrent/INSTALL.unix.txt but it is very thin on details. For example: * there is mention of needing wxPython - I've tried going through rpm -qa and I have no idea if I have this or not; * I install all non-RPM installs to either ~/bin or /usr/local/bin but I have no idea which of the files in the tarball I need to copy there - surely not all of them: many of them judging by their names are specific to windows or Mac OS X; * the installation instructions mention modifying /etc/mailcap - will this work with mozilla and galeon? I'd really appreciate some help on this. TIA, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
