Tribler : the best bittorrent client for linux ?

[reda_ea]

BIG IMPORTANT EDIT
this is OOOOOOOLLLLLLDDD
Tribler now has changed a lot,
AND,
they have their own repos and make debs themeselves
so intead of losing your time here, read this :

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

thet's it
END OF THE BIG IMPORTANT EDIT

After looking for and trying all (native+gtk) bittorrent clients I could find (and get to compile), I found tribler (http://www.tribler.org/) witch seems to do all I need from it, and , well, I like it better than the others.
It seems to do more than just bittorrent, something about social sharing I don't understand much (maybe when I'll try this more I'll understand).
from the website

With Tribler, we are creating software for video file sharing that has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users. Currently, Tribler is not production-level software yet, but we do have a fully functional proof-of-concept.
[...]
Features that we are adding include:
* Amazon-like recommendations to get interesting files
* Doubling the download speed by using the upload capacity of friends
* Real-time P2P file sharing with P2P video streaming
* Showing the locations of other downloaders of the same content with city-level accuracy on a world map

Anyway, take a look at the official page, they have a lot of information there.

And, of course, I made a package for it (that's why I started this thread) it can be downloaded here:
EDIT
The older version doesn't work anymore. ere's the lastest version, use this one instead. http://membres.lycos.fr/bou3ou/packa...untu3_i386.deb
/EDIT

And if you want to use the web interface, you must configure it to use the loopback interface (it crashed on me when I made automatic) and access it using something like phpABC witch can be found here :
http://www.swiftlytilting.com/phpabc/
just put it in your webserver and go there and fill the informations you configured the server with.

well that's it ..

[TecnoVM64]

Sorry but the .deb doesn't work and their repos don't seem to be working correctly, it looks really nice on the screenshots though
I'd like to try it

Edit: oh ok, it's just that lycos doesn't support direct linking, here's a mirror that supports direct linking . :
http://b.tecnovm64.com/Packages/trib...untu1_i386.deb

[reda_ea]

thanx for the mirror

I made a little mistake in the link adress I think that's what caused the error (but direct linking works for me ...)

anyway I corrected everything now

[Tom Brokaw]

How does it compare to utorrent?

[reda_ea]

don't know .. you try and tell me

[MyBigToe]

Works great for me so far!

[justinlb]

Thanks this is working well, I've been looking for an alternative for Azureus for a while.

[kostkon]

Yes I think it's much better from Azureus, if you want to use a lightweight bittorent app; and the idea of social sharing of files is good so you get two things in one with this great app!

[MyBigToe]

my only problem so far is that when i download a torrent off a site with a space in, I have to save to my hard drive then open it in tribler or it cant find it

[ubuntian]

hi reda_ea, could u please provide the step of installation so that newbie like me can understand it easily, thx!