BitTorrent

BitTorrent is a protocol supporting the practice of peer-to-peer file sharing that is used to distribute large amounts of data over the Internet.

Slackware clients

Slackware comes with two Bittorrent clients such as the graphical ktorrent (part of KDE) and the console-based bittorrent (not installed by default but available in the /extra directory).

Install console client:

# wget http://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-14.0/extra/bittorrent/bittorrent-4.4.0-noarch-4.txz
# installpkg bittorrent-4.4.0-noarch-4.txz 
# http://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-14.0/extra/bittornado/bittornado-0.3.18-noarch-3.txz
# installpkg bittornado-0.3.18-noarch-3.txz

Error No module named BitTorrent.platform

ctorrent install

• cd /tmp

• wget http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/network/ctorrent.tar.gz

• tar xvzf ctorrent.tar.gz
• cd ctorrent

• wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dtorrent/3.3.2/ctorrent-dnh3.3.2.tar.gz

• ./ctorrent.SlackBuild

• installpkg /tmp/ctorrent-dnh3.3.2-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz

Slack64 14.0 package: ctorrent-dnh3.3.2-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz

Get Slackware 14.1 torrent

• wget http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-14.1-install-dvd.torrent

• ctorrentslackware-14.1-install-dvd.torrent