-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A. F. Cano wrote: > Hi, > > Obviously I've never dealt with bittorrent before. I've read quite a > bit on the web about how it works, the software to install, etc... > But nowhere have I found how to unpack the contents of the TPB.torrent > file so I can use it. Many sites claim a torrent file is a RAR archive, > but unrar claims it is not. "file" claims it's a torrent file, so it > identivies is correctly, and "btshowmetainfo" displays what's in there > (a tar.gz file) but nowhere have I found an "untorrent" or "torrent -x" > or equivalent. > > Man -k torrent doesn't give anything that seems usable. Searching with > aptitude (/torrent) only reveals various clients. They all get the > torrent files to your computer, but what to do from there? HELP! > > Any hints will be very much appreciated. Thanks! > > A. > > Run something like this: rtorrent TPB.torrent
Then this will start downloading all the files and letting it in some place where you ran the `rtorrent' command. The torrent file is something like the specification of where needs to connect and what needs to download. Regards. - -- Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118 http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve `ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIE+1kOKCtW8rKsRgRAlL3AJ9yb51bZ2BTOb4TnhB3226ZsGncSQCeLTbr Ys2y1MtC0y5uUdSB4MK8jkQ= =3xwV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
