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HowTo Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Torrent is a great way to transfer large files very quickly. However most torrent clients are gui based and have quite some impact on system resources (e.g. Azureus). rTorrent is a lightweight client running from the terminal. Being able to run it in a screen session (also upon boot) makes it ideal to also control it from a remote location.

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By: m1lan

Thanks for this howto it works a charm on out of the box lenny beta 2.

By: balintdavid

In Ubuntu 10.04 you also need libcppunit-dev for compiling

cheers

By: Anonymous

is this adaptable for debian lenny? greets