Bit Tornado installation

[gantzerkei]

does anyone knows how to install the tarball of Bit Tornado?
The configure script seems to be missing.

[axelseap]

it doesn't use a configure script. open the INSTALL.unix.txt file and that contains all the instructions to get it working. it seems like you don't really have to make it at all just link it and it should work

[Kamikaze78]

All you need to do is change into the extracted directory and type in

python setup.py install

and it installs it for you.

[marksuci]

Where i was wrong?
marko@marko-desktop BitTornado-CVS]$ python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running install_lib
creating /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/BitTornado
error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/BitTornado': Permission denied
marko@marko-desktop BitTornado-CVS]$

[satanselbow]

You need to be root to install software try:

sudo python setup.py install

[marksuci]

Thanks,problem solved it works.Only i must every time open torrent with btdownloadgui.py

[satanselbow]

Looks like the installer didn't create the menu shortcut for you

Trivial enough to create your own though

In a terminal:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/bittornado.desktop

Cut and paste the following into gedit - include your own full path and icon where indicated! At a guess I would think the path would be /usr/local...

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Bit Tornado
GenericName=Torrent
Comment=Bit Tordado is a GUI bittorrent client written in python.
Exec=<YOUR FULL PATH TO btdownloadgui.py>
Icon=<YOUR FULL PATH TO BIT TORNADO ICON>
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/plain;
Categories=Internet;Torrent;Utility;

Save the file and you should find it appears in your menus (bottom line of .desktop indicates menu categories - you can edit them to suit)

** If you do not need to enter the full path to btdownloadgui.py in a terminal yu can leave the full path out of the .desktop file although it is usually best to be explicit as to which btdownloadgui.py file you want as there is the potential for there to be multiple versions on your machine at any one time **

Why do want to use bittornado?, the project has been dead for over five years.


http://forums.degreez.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7074

[marksuci]

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Bit Tornado
GenericName=Torrent
Comment=Bit Tordado is a GUI bittorrent client written in python.
Exec=/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/bolt1.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/plain;
Categories=Internet;Torrent;Utility;

Thanks for help.
Some torrent sites require bittornado. It s stupid to use uTorrent via Wine[COLOR="Silver"]

Originally Posted by marksuci

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Bit Tornado
GenericName=Torrent
Comment=Bit Tordado is a GUI bittorrent client written in python.
Exec=/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/bolt1.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/plain;
Categories=Internet;Torrent;Utility;

Thanks for help.
Some torrent sites require bittornado. It s stupid to use uTorrent via Wine[COLOR="Silver"]

No site requires a set bittorrent client (some may recommend a client).


p.s there are plenty of good clients in the repo

su
yum install qbittorrent

[marksuci]

Prohibited Scripts and return ratio or seeding for 3 days.Allowed linux torrent clients are :

uTorrent : 1.6.1, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 2.0

Azureus : 4.2.0.2, 4.2.0.4, 4.2.0.8, 4.3.0.0

BitTornado : 0.318

BitTorrent : 6.3

I love transmission but not all private pages allowed it.