On Tue, 7 May 2003, D. D. Brierton wrote: > 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. I managed to download the .src.rpm file and install it rpmbuild --rebuild bittorrent-3.2.1b-1mdk.src.rpm This can be done as a user (not root ) - in a separate test account by first doing: echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros mkdir $HOME/rpm $HOME/rpm/SOURCES $HOME/rpm/SPECS $HOME/rpm/BUILD $HOME/rpm/SRPMS $HOME/rpm/RPMS $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386 rpmbuild --rebuild bittorrent-3.2.1b-1mdk.src.rpm > > 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. It doesn't need any installation. I'll sugest ignoring the graphical stuff - and plugings to mozilla Just do the following (to downloadredhat ISO files) btdownloadcurses.py --url http://f.moya.scarywater.net/redhat9.torrent Satish
