On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:02:46AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux?
>
> I was going to download a file that appears to exist only in
> .torrent form and was shunted to the BitTorrent web site to download a
> .deb package. I figured this was a good time to learn about
> BitTorrent so I downloaded the package and nothing much else really
> happened. This system does not run X and I think what really happened
> was that the package unpacked and couldn't install. A look at the
> BitTorrent web site mentions the GUI in system requirements, but I am
> not sure if that is optional or what. In my case, a required GUI equals
> no application period.
Look out for btdownloadcurses.py and the other btdownload*.py programs
installed in /usr/bin
HTH
Sven
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