Tribler : the best bittorrent client for linux ?

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Hi All,

A message from the Tribler developers. . .

We are getting close to a big new release of
Tribler. Our source code in the Dev Wiki:
https://dev.tribler.org/browser/abc/branches/mainbranch
is getting cleaned of the last bugs.

We will soon create an Release Candidate 1 and
enter a week of testing. Is anyone interested in
doing some Beta testing and giving us detailed feedback ?

Greetings from Holland,
Johan.

Assistant Professor Dr. J.A. Pouwelse
Delft University of Technology

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Hello All,

A message from the Tribler developers.
Tribler 3.6.0 is released now and tested to
work on Ubuntu.

Download link : Source code

Ubuntu repository; add to /etc/apt/sources.list the line :
deb http://debian.tribler.org/debian testing main #or unstable

digg.com news article link

Please post a message here if you run into problems.

Have Fun,
Dr. Ir. J.A. Pouwelse
Assistant Professor, P2P specialist
Delft University of Technology

[tripmix]

I had hoped this could help me with my debian64 torrent problems but no such luck. The package above complains that python2.4-m2crypto-ec don't exit in my repositories and when using the source to run it it uses 100% cpu and 50% mem and thats way worse than what I'm stuck whit now, bittornado. utorrent is the one thing I miss about win. I sure hope there will be usefull bt app for linux64 out there soon, every thing Iv tried for the last 6 months uses way to much of my system resources or don't have the ability to select files.

[rodrigo666]

Yeah, I also miss uTorrent so badly.

When some one is gonna do a uTorrent clone for Linux?

Every other goddamn bittorrent client sucks in Linux!!!

Azureus - weights more than a blue whale and has more bugs than a dirty restaurant;

Ktorrent - it's okay, if you use KDE, wich is not the case of mostly Ubuntu users (I guess), for me it didn't worked well with Gnome since I could not managed to make my temp Directory in another partition not my "/home/";

Deluge - it's almost okay, but it does not have the option to select the files to download and don't get good speeds also;

rTorrent - c'mon, do you really find that non-gui interface user-friendly? Give me a break!;

Bittornado - Can this be called a client? Do you really think so?;

Frostwire - almost work well, but lacks the ability to choose files to download and does not have a good speed also;

Transmission - excellent speed of download, but lacks the ability to choose the files and other useful features.

I'm stuck with Transmission while I wait for some Linux uTorrent clone.

[rodrigo666]

Oh, and by the way, I forgot to mention Tribler:

When I try to run it, this is what I got:

rodrigo@ubuntu64:~$ tribler
ls: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6*: Arquivo ou diretório inexistente
Hmmm... No wxPython unicode package found for python2.4, cannot run Tribler, sorry
exit: 13: Illegal number: -1

[mykalreborn]

Deluge - it's almost okay, but it does not have the option to select the files to download and don't get good speeds also;

you can choose which files to download with deluge. maybe you have an older version of it.

[rodrigo666]

you can choose which files to download with deluge. maybe you have an older version of it.

Hmm, I will search for that new version as soon I get home (in work now), just hope they get a better download speed, since deluge was around 35 kb/s and transmission gets around 65 kb/s.

[tripmix]

I have very similar experiences whit debian testing amd64.

Many of the apps I try have some bugs or something that messes up down/up speed.

For example ktorrent refuse to upload more than a few kbs, and whit azureus back when it

worked made my up/down speed go to full speed for a minute before went down to 0 for

about a minute and back up again.

So far bittornado is the only client that down/upload normally on my system, the downside is

that it can only have one torrent per instance and the more you open the more resources it

uses. Open 3 and leave them running for a day or so and all my mem and swap is gone. It

also lack support for UPnP witch leave my system open unless i close the ports manually.

It sounds to me that ubuntu have more luck here, do anyone have any experience whit both

and can tell me if this is true?

If I wanted to try ubuntu could I just change my sources.list to ubuntu sources and do a

apt-get dist-upgrade?

PS: text was much easier to read with spaces between lines, good thinking

[jdsampayo]

Yeah, I also miss uTorrent so badly.
When some one is gonna do a uTorrent clone for Linux?

...

I'm stuck with Transmission while I wait for some Linux uTorrent clone.

Hello everyone! My first post!

If you miss much uTorrent like myself, well I'm actually running uTorrent in Ubuntu with wine and all works well, It takes a considerable time to startup, but then all it's ok. And I get the maximum speed available in my network connection. No much memory and CPU usage like Azureus. For me, it runs just like in Windows, you have all the features available.

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my debian64 torrent problems; complains that python2.4-m2crypto-ec don't exit.

Hi Tripmix,

We should be able to fix your problem(s)...
Can you de-install m2crypto libs on you box ?
There probably is an older "non-ec" installation mixing up things.
Then please install the new M2Crypto from our
server; such as this unstable/amd64 version :
http://debian.tribler.org/debian/dis....15-3_i386.deb

If you run into WxWindows errors :
http://debian.tribler.org/debian/dis...2.1-2_i386.deb

Hope that works for you . . .

Greetings,
Johan.

Dr. Ir. J.A. Pouwelse
Assistant Professor, P2P specialist
Delft University of Technology