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+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.
+