KDE GUI for BitTorrent

[noridlo]

Just started Breezy. I would like to use BitTorrent with a GUI for KDE. Is this possible? How? Thanks for assisting another newbie.

[maksimkogan]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

i'm using azureus, you need to download a jre in order to use it though as it runs on java. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php

[claydoh]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

there is also ktorrent and qtorrent, which do not require java, but don't have all the features of Azureus. They both work OK though.

[gnutux]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

ktorrent usually never work for me, but Azureus is my best bet, it's the best BitTorrent software I have ever used.

gnutux

[Segovia]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

I like Azureus too, but the whole mess with Sun Java is just getting too much for me to stomach.  Ktorrent gets the job done for me.  I can do without all the bells and whistles of Azureus, I guess...

[Patrick]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

Just KTorrent here.

Does the trick.

[noridlo]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have downloaded Ktorrent 1.1 to my desktop. I have no idea what is next. I tried the compile and install instructions from the download page. I tried with and without kdesu. Here are the errors I received. What to do?

noridlo45@ubuntubob:~$ kdesu tar -xvzf ktorrent-1.1.tar.gz
kdesu: Unknown option '-xvzf'.

noridlo45@ubuntubob:~$ tar ktorrent-1.1.tar.gz
tar: Old option `g' requires an argument.

Thanks for assisting this newbie.

[Patrick]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

On Breezy just do:

sudo apt-get install ktorrent

Enable universe first:

kdesu kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list

[noridlo]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

How does this look?

noridlo45@ubuntubob:~$ kdesu kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list
kbuildsycoca running...
sudo apt-get install ktorrent

Is this what I should expect to see?

Thanks,
noridlo

[noridlo]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

Patrick,
I finally got the Ktorrent install resolved. Man is it cranking. I found a tip at Linuxquestions.org forum to install KDE-Dev package. Then uncommented the two lines for universe in the kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list.
Thanks for the tips. Couldn't do it without you.

[eduqui]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

Thx patric, I've just installed it. I'ts great.

[ivasic]

Re: KDE GUI for BitTorrent

I think the available version in apt repository is 1.0 (or am I mistaken?). If so, I would HIGHLY recommend using version 1.1 (or SVN version which has many new features). You can find 1.1 package for Kubuntu on our website :
http://ktorrent.pwsp.net/

Good luck!