I know this post will bring back bad memories for elav , and I'd rather not 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 ctorrent
I just want to add something VERY important:
regards