rTorrent

[Justec]

Does anyone know an easy YUM or RPM install for this on Cent OS 4.4 64bit?

I remember there was some kind of CentOS YUM repo for CentOS that was like for non-default packages. Think it was called CentOSplus and it contains stuff like PHP 5. Maybe its in there?

Any ideas besides compiling it myself?

[IWorx-Socheat]

Doesn't look to be in CentOSPlus or in the extras repositories. However, it is here:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rtorrent/

Speaking of the CentOSPlus repo, that reminds me... :)

[Justec]

Doesn't look to be in CentOSPlus or in the extras repositories. However, it is here
Thanks Socheat, I was just reading through the manual install and it seems very easy (if the configure file worked right), but I like the RPM method b/c then I can uninstall it. If I did the install manually, it would copy all the compiled files to /usr/local (/bin, /man, etc..) and I dont know any easy way of removing them if I wanted to in the future.

I assume the RHEL4 64 bit is the one I need correct?
rtorrent-0.5.3-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm Mon 16 Oct 2006 297 kB Red Hat EL 4 - x86_64

Speaking of the CentOSPlus repo, that reminds me... :)
Uh oh, what are you up to :p

Thanks again!

[Justec]

Actually that RPM is an older version, the current verison os 0.6.3.

I'll probably just try the ./configure; make; make install. There is a way to install everything to its own directory instead of /usr/local so I can just stick it in its own folder.

[Fr3d]

I'll probably just try the ./configure; make; make install. There is a way to install everything to its own directory instead of /usr/local so I can just stick it in its own folder.

Indeed; that's what the--prefix=/your/funky/folder/structureoption is for :D

[Justec]

Well I just tried running ./configure to see what it came up with.

I got this error:No package 'sigc++-2.0' found
configure: error: Package requirements (sigc++-2.0 libtorrent >= 0.10.1) were not met:

I found RPMs for both of these on the DAG site:
[root@server1 rtorrent-test]# rpm -qa | grep sigc*
libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.el4.rf

[root@server1 rtorrent-test]# rpm -qa | grep libtor*
libtorrent-0.9.0-1.el4.rf
libtool-libs-1.5.6-4.EL4.1.c4.4
libtool-1.5.6-4.EL4.1.c4.4

But I guess since the RPM for the libtorrent is .9 it wont work. So I am just going to install the old RPM version of rtorrent that Socheat found for me. I mean its old version but the date on the DAG site is from this Monday, so it can't be that old.

[Justec]

Well I let my inner nerd out and decided to compile it.

So i download the source for the 3 packages (sigc++-2.0, libtorrent, rtorrent).
I put them all to a subdirectory of a home account so then I did an export library path to that directory. I also did configure on that directory as a prefix.

Then i had to set some pkgconfig env var to point to the path where the .pc files were. Once I figured that out all went pretty smooth. Except I thought I install the libtorrent, but it didn't seem to be there. Then I did it a 2nd time and there it was.

Then I just set the PATH to the directory of the bin where rtorrent is and that was that :D

[blahrus]

Not that I have ever used a torrent file or would know what todo with one, you should check out:

http://www.torrentflux.com/

Very slick.