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FedoraNEWS: Building Gnome BitTorrent Downloader RPM package for Fedora

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 26, 2004

[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung for this link. ]

“Gnome BitTorrent Downloader is a work-in-progress Gnome
‘mime-sink’ for BitTorrent files. It’s not meant to be an entire
front-end, just a program that pops up when you ‘execute’ the
torrent files. It was written by Paul Varga who felt to write this
program in Python since BitTorrent is written in Python.

“In this article, I’ll be using gnome-btdownload version 0.0.6
to build RPM package for Fedora. Please note the latest version
0.0.16 seems to have a problem with Fedora and I would like to
encourage any Python Developers out there to debug the source code
and let us know so we can share this wonderful program…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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