Anyone who uses RedHat enterprise will find that plugging into third party repositories to get non standard software is risky. Today I needed to install bittorrent and noticed that the redhat enterprise 5 repository does not have what I need. Well, I got the packages needed and built a installer so that anyone using RedHat Enterprise 5 can install bittorrent easily.

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Instructions:

login as root or su

wget http://larmeir.com/downloads/rhel5-bitorrent.tar.gz

tar xvzf rhel5-bitorrent.tar.gz

cd bittorrent-rhel5

sh bt-install.sh

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And that is it! You will have a fully working bittorrent installation. You can find the commands in /usr/bin

# ls /usr/bin/ | grep bit
bittorrent-console*
bittorrent-curses*
bittorrent-tracker*

To start downloading a torrent us bittorrent-curses

/usr/bin/bittorrent-curses (url or path to torrent with no brackets)

Enjoy! – Dustin