install.unix.txt

BitTorrent（简称BT

Before installing BitTorrent 4.0.1, remove any older versions of the
BitTorrent client that may be installed.

Most of the following instructions require root privileges.

How to install BitTorrent on a generic UNIX system:
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Install Python, version 2.2.1 or later
http://python.org/

Install GTK, version 2.2 or later
http://gtk.org/

Install pygtk, version 2.4 or later
http://pygtk.org/

Optionally install dnspython, version 1.3.2 or later, if you want to
be notified when there is a newer version of BitTorrent available
http://www.dnspython.org/

Optionally, apply dnspython_patch.diff to dns/resolver.py, found in
$PYTHONPATH or python's sys.path. (This patch prevents dnspython from
using a lot of CPU when you have no network connection and is mainly
only important under Windows.)

Install BitTorrent by running 
python setup.py install

Optionally, untar and put a line in /etc/mailcap which is similar to
the following, only replace the path to /usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py with
the one it's actually in.

application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

You may have to restart your web browser for it to start using
BitTorrent.

If you're using a web browser which doesn't respect /etc/mailcap you
can go into the mime-type configuration for your web browser and
manually associate application/x-bittorrent with btdownloadgui.py
(with the appropriate path, of course.)


How to build a .deb format Debian package and install it:
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First, remove any older versions of BitTorrent that may be installed:
(this command will also remove BitTornado)
apt-get remove bittorrent bittorrent-gui

python setup.py bdist_dumb
cd dist/
alien BitTorrent-4.0.1.linux-i686.tar.gz

you should now have a .deb package in: bittorrent-4.0.1.linux_i686-2_all.deb

then install the .deb
dpkg -i bittorrent-4.0.1.linux_i686-2_all.deb


How to build an .rpm format package and install it:
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python setup.py bdist_rpm
rpm -i dist/BitTorrent-4.0.1-1.noarch.rpm