Can't get BitTorrent to work !!!

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Mar 29 19:50:26 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:33, reg at dwf.com wrote:
> Ive used BitTorrent to download Fedora before, but today I 
> just cant get the damn thing to work.
> 
> Ive gone so far as to download a NEW version of the python
> for FC1 and installed the RPM.
> 
> I tried to add
>     application/x-bittorrent	/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py
> 
> to the Mozilla Edit->Preferences->Helper Applications list, and then
> click on the line in the mailing-list message, but nothing, I get the 
> Download Manager popup, but then nothing else.
> 
> OK, tried doing it by hand, I type
>     btdownloadcurses.py --url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC2-test2-binary-i3
> 86.torrent


rpm -q bittorrent
rpm -q python

I'm betting it's a site-packages issue with python 2.2 vs python 2.3

-sv






More information about the test mailing list