On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:35:08PM -0430, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > ... > > 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, > > ... > Run something like this: > rtorrent TPB.torrent
Thanks for replying. I don't have rtorrent installed, but by looking at aptitude, I see that it is just another client, and I already have one installed. I have bittorrent and bittorrent-gui, which, like the many FAQ files I've read is a client that downloads the files. > Then this will start downloading all the files and letting it in some > place where you ran the `rtorrent' command. The torrent file is Actually this has already been done. I downloaded the file and it is sitting in the directory where I told the browser/bittorrent to put it. I'm talking here about the TPB.torrent file. See below for the source of the confusion. > something like the specification of where needs to connect and what > needs to download. Aha! seeing the output of btshowmetainfo (which had the name of a tar.gz file), I assumed that the torrent file was some sort of archive that contained it. I just did an ls -l and of course it's not big enough to contain a tar.gz file that took this long to download. So I went looking for it and there it was, in my home directory! This was confusing as I told the browser/bittorrent to save it in /var/tmp, which is where the TPB.torrent file ended up. Why did the tar.gz file end up not in the directory I specified? I don't know. But now that I've found it, I know to look for the files where I didn't tell the browser/bittorrent to put them. Thanks for replying. That was the tip I needed to figure it out. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
