OT: Bittorrent Clients

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Hi all,

Just switched my home computer from Windows 7 to CentOS 6.6 and I’m having a slight bit of trouble with the bittorrent-clients.

* Transmission is fine but lacks “a bit” in features.

* Vuze is my preferred bt-client but gives me horrendous gfx-artifacts, like not showing the torrent name (it’s white text on a white background or some such…).

* Deluge is better, and what I’m using now, but I’m having trouble finding a repo that has the updated versions available for install with yum. I installed v1.3.5 a few days ago and already it’s telling me that version is way outdated.

Would anybody have any hints as to how and where to get the latest Deluge for CentOS? Or maybe even suggest a better torrent-client?

All I’m getting from the Deluge site is some kind of source packages that is of no use for me. 8-/

Thanks in advance for any hints, tips and tricks.

21 thoughts on - OT: Bittorrent Clients

  • Sorin,

    I recommend you stick to Transmission since it’s in Base. I have however issued updated packages for Deluge in my nux-dextop repo if it helps you. Also check rtorrent out.

    HTH
    Lucian

  • Isn’t that a KDE-specific program? Works with Gnome as well?
    //Sorin

    Sent from my tablet, please excuse the brevity.

    Alexandru Chiscan wrote:

    ktorrent

    Lec

  • With ktorrent? No idea. Didn’t even think of checking that one out.
    //Sorin

    Sent from my tablet, please excuse the brevity.

    Jeff Allison wrote:

    What’s missing?

  • Cool, thanks! I’ll check it out!
    Rtorrent is great, but for a home computer I’d prefer a clicky bt-client. :-)
    //Sorin

    Sent from my tablet, please excuse the brevity.

    Nux! wrote:

    Sorin,

    I recommend you stick to Transmission since it’s in Base. I have however issued updated packages for Deluge in my nux-dextop repo if it helps you. Also check rtorrent out.

    HTH
    Lucian

  • Nux! writes:

    For the record and the benefit of anyone reading the list archives, Transmission appears to be in EPEL, not Base.

  • Oh, well, there’s no coulmns I can find to show various speed, trackers used, remaining time, ot able to sort on name, speed etc. Basically it’s the gui I don’t like. It’s fine otherwise and does its job excellent.

  • My versions quite old but you can change the sort order to all of those things, the trackers etc are visible in the inspector.

    There’s no columns, but it’s not that kind of GUI.

  • Yes, it’s from kde.
    >Works with Gnome as well?
    All kde programs work in all desktop managers provided that you install the required libraries. The same is true for gnome programs.

    LEC

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  • I’ve encountered (long ago) programs for KDE that didn’t look too good when run with Gnome, that’s why I am asking. Gnome have been my primary choice a long time now. ;-)

  • Just wondering to myself:
    What made you switch from Windows 7 to CentOS 6.6?

    Eliezer

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  • Did you try Transmission? You can install just the daemon (provided you wnat to access it from elsewhere) and access it through a neat web UI. Other interesting option is rtorrent if you like console-based apps.

    Btw, my OT: from Windows 7 to CentOS 6.6? WHY!!? I mean, I use CentOS
    everywhere I can for my server needs but I think that for a workstation Fedora could be a better fit – my 2cents.

  • I was never able to get samba on the homefolder server to work properly and with decent speeds, it sometimes worked sometimes not, sometimes it wanted passwords, sometimes it just worked. Opening a Word document from the samba share took like two minutes each. A
    PDF-document took four minutes. Also I wanted to see if I could get better network speeds generally from my client to the servers. I didn’t feel this was good enough.

    Wifey still has the above problems from her Win7 box. Things got better after I switched her to LibreOffice, from MS Office 2010, but it’s still not very smooth for some reason. 8-/

    As a side note, Win7 was capable of about 150-170 Mbps on my gigabit network. On CentOS I got consistent speeds of up to 700 Mbps while e.g. syncing the local Owncloud folder!

  • I did. It’d be neat to have the Transmission daemon running 24/7 on the webserver and just connect to it as needed. We’ll see how this goes. Want to give Deluge from the nux repo another go.

    I like tinkering and I’ve always been a little envious of our molecular modeling chemists at work. CentOS performs like lightning and I wanted to also see if I could squeeze out some extra power and speed while rendering the Gopro-clips I film every now and then. Pinnacle Studio in Win7 never was very fast despite running on an Intel i7 (an older version).

    As for Fedora – nah, don’t like the default desktop environment. I know there are other DE alternatives, but never liked the bleeding edge-philososphy anyway. Prefer stability. I looked into Mint 17, but didn’t like the way it handled software raid creation at install. CentOS is way better there.

    As for other reasons, see my previous post!