Bittorrent - how to use on Linux?

[john bray]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 14:53 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 06:47, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Andrea Montenegro wrote:
> > > Paul Howarth wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I have RPMs for it at:
> > >> http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/BETA/
> > >>
> > >> Paul.
> > FWIW, I now have an FC3 package of the new BitTorrent 4.0.0 client (no
> > longer a beta) at:
> > http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/
> >
> > Paul.
> 
> Hi Paul:
> 
> I've downloaded the above rpm and attempted to install but get a dependency 
> error  (see below).  I've tried yum from regular, extras and development 
> repos with no success at locating python-abi.  
> 
> [root at linux2 bittorrent-FC3]# rpm -Uvh bittorrent-4.1.1-4.fc3.noarch.rpm
> warning: bittorrent-4.1.1-4.fc3.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, 
> key ID b56a8bac
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         python-abi = 2.3 is needed by bittorrent-4.1.1-4.fc3.noarch
> 
> Would you please inform me where that is available?  Also, I'm not sure which 
> rpm files are needed, just the bittorrent file, or the bittorrent-gui and/or 
> wxPythonGTK2.  
> 
> Would the fact that I'm trying to install on FC4T3 be a problem since the rpms 
> are for FC3?
> 
> Thanks, Tom
> 
> 

you know, tom, i finally tried out azureus and i've never looked back.
you might want to see how you like it as well.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
since it was java, wasn't much to install.

john