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HowTo Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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Torrent is a great way to transfer large files very quickly. However most torrent clients are gui based and have quite some impact on system resources (e.g. Azureus). rTorrent is a lightweight client running from the terminal. Being able to run it in a screen session (also upon boot) makes it ideal to also control it from a remote location.

Torrent is a great way to transfer large files very quickly. However most torrent clients are gui based and have quite some impact on system resources (e.g. Azureus). rTorrent is a lightweight client running from the terminal. Being able to run it in a screen session (also upon boot) makes it ideal to also control it from a remote location.

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Comments (6)

nikkels ·
Why does rtorrent need to be compiled by the end user ? I use PCLinuxOS and when I want rTorrent, I just install it from the repos. This gives me personally the impression that the Buntus are a year behind other distros instead of leading .

Please enlighten me
tracyanne ·
and enlighten me too.

This is what I keep refering to, Ubuntu (which it is claimed is newbie friendly) has all these CLI things the new user has to do, whereas real newbie oriented distros have the software already packaged.
techiem2 ·
Quoting:Why does rtorrent need to be compiled by the end user ?


My guess would be because *buntu users aren't generally known to be CLI users so they don't bother packaging many CLI apps like this when there are purty gui apps that do the same thing.
bigg ·
> Why does rtorrent need to be compiled by the end user ?

It doesn't. It's available in the Ubuntu (and Debian) repos. Note that this is SVN, so I suppose you'd need to do so if you want the very latest.
Steven_Rosenber ·
I see this occasionally -- an admonition to grab the latest version of package X and compile it yourself.
nikkels ·
***Note that this is SVN, ***

OK, I didn't understood this well. I do now. Thanks

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