Monday, January 3, 2011

Command line BitTorrent client Fedora / RedHat /CentOS

BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, and of a free software implementation of that protocol.



[root@example ~]# python -V
Python 2.7

[root@example ~]# yum install bittorrent -y


[root@example ~]# rpm -qa |grep bittorrent
bittorrent-4.4.0-15.fc14.noarch


[root@example rajat]# bittorrent-curses CD704DCEEA6555A6DA95E8EB233E1956C825B8AE.torrent 



3 comments:

Sachin Gopal said...

Why that check for python ? If yum is there bittoreent depedencies will auto-fix. As yum requires python it will be installed on default.

Anonymous said...

Brand New install of Centos 5.6 and bittorrent is unavailable:
[root@tera share]# yum install bittorrent -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: www.muug.mb.ca
* extras: www.muug.mb.ca
* updates: www.muug.mb.ca
Setting up Install Process
No package bittorrent available.
Nothing to do

Anonymous said...

Use DAG repo for installation