bittorrent client for ubuntu ?

[ciproxr]

Im using azureus but compared to utorrent is horrible. ktorrent sucks.

utorrent does such a great job, it even connects and starts downloading faster than any client i have ever seen.

I just need to work out this last detail (bittorrent client) and im going to keep ubuntu as my main operating system

I know you can run utorrent on wine but i saw a guide and it was like 3 pages long, dont know if i wanted to type in that manny commands do all that and possibly screw up my installation.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Ktorrent while using KDE, otherwise it's like using microtorrent (that u isn't a u) under wine.

For gnome, btdownload seems to be the only real option.

Oh, and microtorrent won't do anything Ktorrent can't do, the thing with KDE apps is that you get to customize them tell me one thing you can do with microtorrent and i'll tell you two ways to do the same with Ktorrent.

 

[Alone]

Uh...running utorrent under wine is easy.

sudo apt-get install wine

cd ~/ && wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.6.1/utorrent.exe && mv utorrent.exe .utorrent

wine ~/.utorrent

 

[Brazen]

I think my favorite on any platform would have to be ktorrent, although I hate the overhead of running kde apps under gnome. Bitcomet on Windows is pretty nice too, though I haven't used it in over a year.

 

[nweaver]

there is a python based one that seems nice, I used it to download 7.04 the other day....search in synaptic for torrent, and you will see there are many options. this one was deluge-torrent iirc

 

[drag]

If you want to be 'elite' then setup a dedicated torrent server/client on a seperate machine.

Check out torrentflux (should be aviable in Ubuntu or Debian) for this. It'll do a lot of fairly advanced stuff like supporting RSS feeds and built-in front end for popular torrent websites.

It would go perfect with a dedicated Linux box for file serving, media streaming, and such things. You'll want to have something with a good amount of RAM, though. Like around 256megs or so, which is a lot for a Linux file server. Having a full Apache/MySQL/PHP dynamic webserver can be a bit hoggish. (a typical Linux file server your looking at only needing 32-64megs of ram)



Azureus is pretty good and it can be good peforming if your using the Sun Java VM instead of the GCJ VM. GCJ stuff is by default, I beleive.

 

[mundhra]

this had been a real issue for me when i moved to linux full-time. i'm very pleased with rtorrent. it's cli with menus and can be setup to monitor a directory and automatically download .torrent files saved there.

 

[dandragonrage]

Clients aren't as important on Linux as in Windows. In Windows, unless programmed a specific way, Windows will cache the files you download/upload in RAM and it will slow your computer WAY down. I'm talking about using over a gigabyte of RAM if you leave it long enough. All the Python clients do this in Windows. But this does not happen in Linux. So it's more of just picking whichever UI you like.

I always did like the interface for Rufus, personally.

 

[SSP]

I still can't find a bit torrent client as good as utorrent in linux, so stick with utorrent in wine (just my preference). Works perfectly. Just disable the minimize to tray icon option. I (and others, especially under beryl) had problems with it not showing up again.

 

[ciproxr]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Alone
Uh...running utorrent under wine is easy.

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>sudo apt-get install wine</end quote></div>
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>cd ~/ && wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.6.1/utorrent.exe && mv utorrent.exe .utorrent</end quote></div>
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>wine ~/.utorrent</end quote></div></end quote></div>

holy crap that was easy, thank you

 

[ciproxr]

Originally posted by: mundhra
this had been a real issue for me when i moved to linux full-time. i'm very pleased with rtorrent. it's cli with menus and can be setup to monitor a directory and automatically download .torrent files saved there.

rtorrent had caught my eye but i had heard that alot of sites banned it but i dont know

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: SSP
I still can't find a bit torrent client as good as utorrent in linux, so stick with utorrent in wine (just my preference). Works perfectly. Just disable the minimize to tray icon option. I (and others, especially under beryl) had problems with it not showing up again.

I'm not sure if something has changed, but I use the standalone and have never had a problem with the tray icon disappearing. Now, I have had problems where gnome-panel will restart and the utorrent tray icon will hover on its own. I just gotta kill the explorer shell.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

So you use open source and track a closed source client that attatches to one of your open firewall ports.

Via a third part app?

I'm just waiting for a big bug being spread that way, it's an opening waiting to happen, probably a triple whammo when it does hit.



Tell me what you can do with microtorrent that i can't do with Ktorrent? Anything? Anyone?

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
So you use open source and track a closed source client that attatches to one of your open firewall ports.

Via a third part app?

I'm just waiting for a big bug being spread that way, it's an opening waiting to happen, probably a triple whammo when it does hit.



Tell me what you can do with microtorrent that i can't do with Ktorrent? Anything? Anyone?

It's emulated and is without root privileges. I'm no expert, but I fail to see how it could do any damage.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Originally posted by: Alone
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
So you use open source and track a closed source client that attatches to one of your open firewall ports.

Via a third part app?

I'm just waiting for a big bug being spread that way, it's an opening waiting to happen, probably a triple whammo when it does hit.



Tell me what you can do with microtorrent that i can't do with Ktorrent? Anything? Anyone?</end quote></div>

It's emulated and is without root privileges. I'm no expert, but I fail to see how it could do any damage.

Actually no, Wine runs wint root priveliges, microtorrent runs on top and with the directories you allow it to AND all subdirectories, you will have to configure an open hole in your firewall which you don't have to do with Ktrorrent (it will be open when Ktorrent is in use and using it, if there are no uploads the port will be closed for incoming traffic.

Actually, i just checked, no matter what, when you are running microtorrent you share all subdirectories, it doesn't quite get the directory tree.

And yet again, Ktorrent can do everything microtorrent can do, why not use it, it's free and designed for Linux.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I just use bittornado under Xubuntu 7.04. It works well for me, and I used the same client under Windows.

 

[Nothinman]

Actually no, Wine runs wint root priveliges,

No, it runs with the privileges of the user running it. If your is setuid root then something is wrong with your system.

Actually, i just checked, no matter what, when you are running microtorrent you share all subdirectories, it doesn't quite get the directory tree.

That's impossible, with the way torrents work the only thing you're ever sharing is what's in the .torrent file your client is using.

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Actually no, Wine runs wint root priveliges, microtorrent runs on top and with the directories you allow it to AND all subdirectories, you will have to configure an open hole in your firewall which you don't have to do with Ktrorrent (it will be open when Ktorrent is in use and using it, if there are no uploads the port will be closed for incoming traffic.

I don't recall ever running wine using sudo, so there's no way that I could be giving it super user permissions.

Don't make assumptions. :roll:

EDIT: And as Nothingman said, you're only sharing the file that's active, this isn't a P2P app like Kazaa or Napster.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: drag
If you want to be 'elite' then setup a dedicated torrent server/client on a seperate machine.

Check out torrentflux (should be aviable in Ubuntu or Debian) for this. It'll do a lot of fairly advanced stuff like supporting RSS feeds and built-in front end for popular torrent websites.

It would go perfect with a dedicated Linux box for file serving, media streaming, and such things. You'll want to have something with a good amount of RAM, though. Like around 256megs or so, which is a lot for a Linux file server. Having a full Apache/MySQL/PHP dynamic webserver can be a bit hoggish. (a typical Linux file server your looking at only needing 32-64megs of ram)

This is what I have. One of these days though, I want to switch my torrentflux setup to torrentflux-b4rt.