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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2009-08-26 10:00:38 -0500 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:41:17 +0200 |
| commit | 5a12e7c134274dba706667107d10d231517d3e05 (patch) | |
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Slackware 13.0slackware-13.0
Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy! -P.
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diff --git a/extra/bittorrent/README b/extra/bittorrent/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..551ba8660 --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/bittorrent/README @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ + +Here's a BitTorrent package for Slackware. + +Note that we don't ship either wxGTK or wxPython, which are needed for the +bittorrent-console script. I built and installed these, and couldn't justify +the huge size (and assorted build problems) in order to enable an ugly little +dialog box. But feel free to grab those sources and knock yourself out! + +I've included a simple script and mailcap entry to allow using the curses +based downloader instead, which will work just the same as the GUI version +but with a lot less library overhead required. For Mozilla, Netscape, and +other browsers that read /etc/mailcap, once you've installed this package +BitTorrent should work right out of the box. If your browser doesn't use +/etc/mailcap, you can set it up to use /usr/bin/bittorrent-xterm as the +helper application for the MIME type application/x-bittorrent. + +If you're a command-line user, you may also consider using bittorrent-curses +manually. Here's how: + +1. Download the .torrent file into your download directory. + +2. At the command line, use the curses version of BitTorrent to download: + bittorrent-curses some-big-file.torrent + +This should start the download and bring up a status screen where you can +monitor the download (and upload) progress. + +Have fun! + +- P. + |