Bittorrent - a Mini Howto for linux. (I am using ubuntu 7.04 and kde)  :-)                                      Back to Main Page of minihowto.org

This is a very short version, and if you want to know more, go to  the Internet etc.

This howto is without any guarantee, and you may use it on your own responsibility only.

There may be errors, but I do not want to use too much time to  write this howto.

To check specific words you may try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  (search).    



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The *.torrent file downloaded

Download started  automatically

Download finished


Bittorrent is program, which is used to download files, via other downloaders, a variant of file share.

The idea is to avoid to overload a single server, which might happen, if many people were all downloading the same big file at the same time.

I will explain it by an example - lets download a kubuntu iso image by using bittorrent.

First the "Bittorrent" program must be installed, which it is on most linux distributions by default.

Then we will need a small file, the name of which ends on ".torrent", like "kubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent", and you could get it here:

To find a mirror site near you for kubuntu, click here

Click here to download a bittorrent file from a Danish mirror site

The *.torrent file downloaded into /home/niels3/downloads_/kubuntu (the size of the file is aprox. 27 kb) (below):



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To get the real "kubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso"  image file (of  some 690 mb) downloaded, you just left click on the "torrent" file,

and the "Bittorrent" program will ask you which folder to  download the file into (see below):





We have  (above) specified to download the file "kubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso" file into the /home/niels3/downloads_/kubuntu  directory.

Click on the "Save" button, and the "Bittorrent" program will start the download automatic (see below):
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Download finished  (below):



And here you see the downloaded iso image file sitting in the download folder:




Hereafter it is just to burn the iso image into an install cd - use K3B or other cd burner, and an linux install can begin :-)
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8/2007