BitTorrent Cheat Sheet

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The original curses client

Installing

Linux:

$ sudo yum install bittorrent            # Fedora
$ sudo apt-get install python-bittorrent # Ubuntu and Debian

FreeBSD:

Install /usr/ports/net/py-bittorrent

Running

$ btdownloadcurses.py --max_allow_in 10 --max_initiate 10 -minport 6881 --maxport 6889 torrentfile

Good cross-platform GUI client

Transmission: http://transmissionbt.com/