Comments on: rtorrent 11 on Debian 5

By: jzerbe

jzerbe — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:25:26 +0000

@jamie Point taken. True, you probably shouldn't 777 the whole directory, I just access my torrents via a web frontend that runs as the www-data user, as well as from several other user accounts.

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:01:17 +0000

the 777 above introduces a huge vulnerability… particularly risky if you’re running torrent!

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:10:37 +0000

Worked flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.04 (Crunchbang)… thanks for the cut and pasteable instructions. Whew.

By: jzerbe

jzerbe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:07:07 +0000

@Ghworg Yeah I noticed the double tarball packaging, when I was playing with the source earlier. Just might have to take you up on that and compile from source one of these days.

By: Ghworg

Ghworg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:02:27 +0000

In addition to DHT, if you want magnet links support there is a patch available at http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/955 which adds support for it. Of course this does mean compiling a local version not just using the squeeze package. I’ve recently written a short guide to packaging new versions of apps for local use on my blog if you want to have a go.

The debian packaging for rtorrent is rather weird making this a bit more of a chore than it needs to be. Rather than containing the source directly, the tarball contains another tarball which has the source. So you need to untar twice, patch the code then tar the changed source back up again twice.

Hopefully the patch will be added to the main codebase soon and these contortions won’t be necessary.

By: rtorrent 11 on Debian 5 | Debian-News.net - Your one stop for news about Debian

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:03:09 +0000

[...] For those of you looking for DHT support with the default rtorrent package that it is in the Debian 5 apt repos you are out of luck. Currently the only way to get DHT support for rtorrent is to use the 0.8.5-2 release for Debian “Squeeze” (testing). More here [...]