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Commandline BitTorrent

rtorrent is a command line bit torrent client for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:

  • on Suse I was unable to find anything in the repo’s. So i grabbed the source from here 
    • rpm -Uvh rtorrent-0.7.6-1.1.i586.rpm
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    • rpm -Uvh libtorrent-0.11.6-1.1.i586.rpm
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    (both packages are available at the link above)

      

    

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  • run the application: rtorrent
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Usage


To simply download a torrent do the following:


rtorrent http://extratorrent.com/download/666052/openSUSE-10+2-GM-DVD-i386-iso.torrent


For further options see  the man page and the user guide.


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