fresh off the boat

[andrew fries]

Tab Gilbert wrote:
> Just starting but can not figure out (find) how to make make an
> application run (show up) on the menu.
> 
> 
> from a gnome-terminal type:
> 
> sudo apt-get install bittorrent
> 
> So it says I have it installed but I can not find where it is located.
>  Got a folder to appear under the applications menu but get confused
> after that.  I go to Create Laucher and then can not find bittorrent
> and do not know the proper command.
> 
> Did the:
> applications:////
> which did not work.  
> 
> Everything I have seen in the various help/documentation sections just
> seems to assume I know something which is not the case.  I am missing
> this small vital link.
> 
> Goal:
> Install and run bittorrent to get the livecd
> figure out how to do a checksum cause I have done 3 direct downloads
> of hoary and everyone of them shows a bad checksum during install.

This discussion got way off the track, but going back to the actual 
question... bittorrent is not a GUI application, so there is little 
point in adding it to menu. Just open a terminal and run it! Another 
thing, none of bittorrent binaries are actually called 'bittorrent' - 
they are btdownloadcurses.py and btdownloadheadless.py. Both do the same 
thing, just presenting their messages in a slightly different way.

Run it like this:
btdownloadcurses.py --max-uploads X --max-upload-rate Y 
nameofyourtorrent.torrent.

Values for X and Y depend on your connection. With my ADSL 512/128 and I 
use X=3 and Y=8...

And first of all, make sure you've opened port 6881 before running 
bittorrent.