Thanks for the help with bittorrent

Doom Neine shockwavebsd at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 28 06:03:52 PST 2004


--- Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop at madras.dyndns.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:48:24PM -0800, Doom Neine
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to install bittorrent on a FreeBSD 5.2
> > release , i have not updated the source tree or
> > rebuilt world or anything. but it won't work i
> kept
> > getting errors. so just to try to figure out where
> the
> > problem was i tried to install the
> py-bittorrent-core
> > port and it installed fine. i tracked the problem
> to
> > this port x11-toolkits/tk84. so i updated the
> > portsfile and used portupgrade to install 8.4.5,1.
> > however it still does not work. i'm copying the
> errors
> > i get to the rest of this message. please let me
> know
> > how i can resolve this situation.
> 
> 
> Unless you insist on using the gui (say
> btdownloadgui), you could
> install net/py-bittorrent-core which is much
> smaller. Just
> that you have to run stuff from a terminal/xterm.
> 
> Gautam
> 

Thank you for the help, i don't really insist on using
the gui version, it's just that i was a bit resistant
because the bittorrent-core port doesn't have much
documentation - but i am trying it out as we speak and
things seem to be fine - again thanks

nathanael


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