{"id":30,"date":"2011-11-14T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guymerritt.net\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-08-14T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T02:36:07","slug":"transmission-on-scientific-linux-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Transmission on Scientific Linux 6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I couldn’t get KTorrent to connect to Demonoid<\/strong> and became quite testy. And, just for the record, it’s apparently a Demonoid thing because torrents tracked elsewhere worked fine – I know that some of these tracker sites block certain bit torrent client programs (for reasons I do not understand). Anyway, in desperation I compiled an ancient version of Transmission (no GUI), surfed the net, and found that the following would work from a command line (choose a port number….any port number):<\/span><\/p>\n

\/usr\/local\/bin\/transmissioncli -p 6882 CS1.torrent<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nThings are saved to the local folder, you can resume (although sometimes there will be a few lines of I\/O error code as it starts to resume), and you need to use different port numbers for torrent downloads running simultaneously. By the way, the errors are apparently meaningless – I get ’em, but everything works (who knows?). I read virtually none of the documentation – we’re talkin’ ZERO, baby –<\/strong> and found the command I’ve mentioned on some web page. There are probably other options with this thing – I don’t know (and I don’t care…). Nothing fancy, but it worked fine for getting the job done. And there’s probably a newer version with more options, bug fixes, etc – but I had this archive laying around, so that’s what I used.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nI’ve used this for quite awhile, now, and – though kinda primitive – it works fine. And you have to use different port numbers for torrents which are downloading simultaneously. Also, you have to kill the process to stop make a particular port available again (not just close a shell). That’s my story.<\/span><\/p>\n

I used version 1.34 and simple, standard compile arguments (.\/configure, make, make install) – here it is, for download:<\/p>\n

Transmission 1.34<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It look like this, in action:<\/strong>
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So I couldn’t get KTorrent to connect to Demonoid and became quite testy. And, just for the record, it’s apparently a Demonoid thing because torrents tracked elsewhere worked fine – I know that some of these tracker sites block certain bit torrent client programs (for reasons I do not understand). Anyway, in desperation I compiled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}