[ale] NewbieQ: How do I start using BitTorrent?

[James Sumners]

`/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py --url "http://www.slackware.com/torrents/
slackware-9.1-install-d1.torrent"`

On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:20 pm, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> My system is RH-7.3.
>
> I want to capture Slackware ISO images and am not making much headway with
> BitTorrent. I downloaded BitTorrent-3.2_cvs_alikins-2.noarch.rpm, created
> the user 'btuser' in his/her own unique group (initially with a 'nologin'
> shell, then on the second try with 'bash'), and associated
> 'application/x-bittorrent' and file extension 'torrent' with
> '/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py' in both '/etc/mailcap' and for a couple of
> browsers.
>
> I then went to [http://www.slackware.com] and tried to download the 'd1'
> and 'd2' ISOs for slack-9.1. I saw a "progress" panel for a few seconds,
> then it went away. What I got were a couple of binary files about 50KBy
> long with the extension 'torrent'.
>
> What should have happened? How do I start using this tool?
>
> TIA.
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
>
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