Saturday, August 19, 2017

downloading torrents in GNU/linux (magnet URIs)

Torrents have changed so much...

Nowadays they're greatly distributed in magnet:XXX-looking URIs.
Check more about that in http://www.vuze.com/about-torrents/magnet-links.
I guess it's better than getting lots of torrent files.

Anyway, to be able to open and use these files, here's my favorite torrent client and how to use it.
It's utorrent!

http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/linux

1. Get the utorrent server (it's a server because you can actually access it from the internet too, or your LAN, but you can just use it on localhost as a normal client).
2. cd to wherever the file "utserver" is, and run "./utserver -settingspath &"
3. login to http://localhost:8080/ (user = admin, blank password by default)
4. click the chain looking icon to add a random torrent URL and you're done.

For non GUI related stuffs I liked aria2c, but it stopped working... lots of data are now being encrypted and everything, kinda going out of the original scope of a bittorrent client, which has some good and bad sides.

Anyway, have fun with utorrent.

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