To utilize this tool:
1. Open a Terminal as an ordinary user and type the following command:
$ btdownloadcurses [insert torrent_filename_url.torrent]
Viola, express bittorent downloading.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
HowTo: Download Torrents on the Terminal
GUI clients can really be resource intensive specially for older hardware like mine. I usually use Azureus but find that it pushes my system down so much that it crawls. I just want to download the latest iso of that new shiny Linux distro with as minimal interference as I could from a cumbersome GUI app. Amazingly, a default Debian install has just the thing that I need: a text only application that can download torrents.
To utilize this tool:
1. Open a Terminal as an ordinary user and type the following command:
$ btdownloadcurses [insert torrent_filename_url.torrent]
Viola, express bittorent downloading.
To utilize this tool:
1. Open a Terminal as an ordinary user and type the following command:
$ btdownloadcurses [insert torrent_filename_url.torrent]
Viola, express bittorent downloading.
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hey! thats nice to know. now i can download torrents without having to start X.
ReplyDeleteyup, now if only i can figure out a way to download torrents on the terminal and at the same time browse. :)
ReplyDeleteThere is a way:
ReplyDeleteyou can use "screen"
like this:
~$ screen -dmS torrents #create detached screen "torrents"
~$ screen -rd torrents #enter screen named "torrents"
now start your torrent client
Hold Ctrl and press A (Ctrl+A) and then press "D" alone. "screen" gets [Detached] and you're free to use your terminal again.