This post I know that a elav It will bring back bad memories, and I prefer not to say why hehe ^ - ^ U
The fact is that many times we need for X or Y reason to download files that are shared by torrents, there are many graphic applications to do this but, as I know there are several terminal lovers like me ... that's why I show you an application that works in the terminal and allows us precisely this, download torrents.
First we must install the application:
ctorrent
If you use Debian, Ubuntu or derivatives, a:
sudo apt-get install ctorrent
Then we must download the .torrent file ... for example, I will download the ArchLinux torrent:
wget https://www.archlinux.org/iso/2012.11.01/archlinux-2012.11.01-dual.iso.torrent
And then something as simple as executing ctorrent and passing the .torrent file as a parameter first, that is:
ctorrent archlinux-2012.11.01-dual.iso.torrent
Here I show you a screenshot:
There you can see the size of the file (417MB), the name as well as information about who made the torrent. Besides the amount of MBs downloaded (192MB) and the amount of MBs uploaded / shared (0MB), we can also obviously see the download speed (38612KB / s, that is, 38MB / s ... yes, a beastly speed HAHA).
Once the download has finished, it will remain seed for 72 hours, but pressing [Ctrl] + [C] is enough to stop this.
This application has several more options, you can read them with: man torrent
I just want to add something VERY important:
regards
Thanks for the info, I had already tried it before but I changed it to rtorrent.
mm .. looking at the man, it seems you have no option to use magneticlinks: /
Thank you very much for commenting, it is always good to know about console programs, sometimes they can be very useful ^ _ ^
I did not know it, good app.
Before I used [b] rtorrent [/ b] although now I leave my server at home torrenting all day I installed Transmission which has an excellent web-gui and allows the family to access the server through its name (Avahi is a marvel !) and pause torrenting when they need to browse or anything else.
Health!
I just saw that in the repos of my distro is the aur / enhanced-ctorrent dnh3.3.2-1, here the link to the website: http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/
From what they comment there, ctorrent is a bit abandoned, it only has sporadic bugfixes and very little maintenance, so this fork promises to be an improved version, we'll see what
Thanks for the INFO, I'm going to use the ctorrent 🙂
Thanks for the input; I also know another alternative like Ncurses BitTorrent, it works in the same way from the terminal
yep …… I use torrent to download legal material * cough cough * ……… ..all good. xD
Obviously, we all use torrents to download legal material… and Cuevana to watch movies that we already bought but don't know where we forgot! = D
yes ………… the mule also serves to download legal material.
love forever!
rtorrent r00lz
they are different things ...
both are to download torrents by console, what is the difference?
One more thing that can be done from the terminal. Every day I am more addicted to bash. 🙂
Sure they gave elav a cat for a hare. Now I am left with the question of how big the problems were.
KZKG ^ Gaara, you just gave me a great idea.
Thanks for the tip.
haha until you found that. Cheers
Testing… torrent is life! 🙂
hmm .. do you know if it is possible to use it for magnets?
I think you can't with ctorrent, but with rtorrent you can
OK .. thanks .. the truth is that if it doesn't work for magnets .. I stay as I am.
Can downloads be paused?
All torrent programs have the option to pause downloads and resume at another time.
Is there the option to stop and start the download after ???
Yes, of course, you press [Ctrl] + [C] and the download will stop, and if you execute exactly the same command as before ... it will pick up the download from where it left off.
How strange, it doesn't work for me, but the rtorrent has worked well for me, the ctorrent keeps saying.
warn, get tracker's ip address failed.
- 0/0/1 [0/607/0] 0MB, 0MB | 0,0K / s | 0,0K E: 0,0
This with any torrent.