torrent problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 14:11 -0600, Michael Yep wrote:
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> I am trying to download FC5, and I get this error.
> 
> $ bittorrent-curses bordeaux-DVD-i386.torrent
> 
> Traceback (most recent call
> last):-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   File "/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses", line 445, in ?
>     curses_wrapper(dl.run)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/curses/wrapper.py", line 44, in wrapper
>     return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
>   File "/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses", line 349, in run
>     self.d = CursesDisplayer(scrwin, self.errlist, self.doneflag,
> reread, ulrate)
>   File "/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses", line 117, in __init__
>     curses.use_default_colors()
> _curses.error: use_default_colors() returned ERR
> 
> 
> $ bittorrent-curses --version
> 4.4.0

Are you running this on an old distro with python 2.2.x?

Could you try the package for your distro from here:
http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/

That version has a patch that should address this issue.

Paul.