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Paul (gyoza@comcast.net) had this to say on 10/07/04 at 18:08:
> Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
>
> >On Oct 7, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Art Alexion wrote:
> >
> >>I tried to install a bitorrent client but couldn't get it to work.
> >>Any recommendations/suggestions? (Am using gtk 1.x if that matters)
> >
> >
> >BitTorrent from the package rarely (if ever) works. Its structured in
> >such a way that it needs its libraries to be right where they are in
> >the Bram Cohen tarball. Just download the tarball of the latest
> >version from http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ and untar it in your ~
> >somewhere and use that. That's about all you're going to be able to
> >do. I've tried to install the package on RH, Gentoo and Debian and
> >they all failed. I'm beginning to think that there is no testing of
> >that package ever.
> >
> The official basic client sucks under Linux and Windows. Maybe more so
> under Windows. (I use ABC with XP.)
Use Azureus. Runs under Java, and works beautifully, under both Linux and
Windows. I use it constantly, for downloading live concerts.
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