Can't get shockwave viewer to install in FC3

[Scott]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>  Peter Cannon wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 25 November 2004 11:58, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >
> >> The article above refers to my BitTorrent packages, which
> >> certainly work (including the GUI) on my FC3 systems at home and
> >> at work. What problems are you having with them?
> >
> >
> >
> > I've never been able to get it to work even under FC2 I may not
> > even use it but I would like to see what it looks like and test the
> > benefit to me.
> >
> > I'm not an expert, I have the Icon/Menu entry for the GUI front end
> > if I click on it nothing happens so I opened a terminal and ran
> > btdownloadgui.py this is the output I got.
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last): File
> > "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 262, in run app = btWxApp(0,
> > params) File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 249, in __init__
> > wxApp.__init__(self, x) File
> > "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx/_core.py", line 5243, in
> > __init__ self._BootstrapApp() File
> > "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx/_core.py", line 4931, in
> > _BootstrapApp return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
> > File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 253, in OnInit d =
> > DownloadInfoFrame(doneflag) File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line
> > 108, in __init__ colSizer.Add(50, 50, 0, wxEXPAND) File
> > "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx/_core.py", line 8966, in Add
> > return _core_.Sizer_Add(*args, **kwargs) TypeError: wxWindow,
> > wxSizer, wxSize, or (w,h) expected for item
> >
> > Don't knock your brains out I'm used to it now.
>
>
>  This is typical of an unpatched version of the GUI. Try the
>  BitTorrent RPMs at http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/
>  instead. You might also want to try gnome-btdownload instead of
>  BitTorrent-gui and wxPythonGTK2; not only is it a much smaller
>  download, IMHO it's a better GUI for BitTorrent.

For my money, nothing beats the Azureus Bittorrent client.

 http://azureus.sourceforge.net/