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  • 22-07-2011 10:24pm
    #1
    manamale
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    Can anyone tell me the name of downloading software other than bit torent.

    Thanks


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    #2
    onemorechance
    Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    http://download.cnet.com ;)


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    #3
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,334 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    Transmission - http://www.transmissionbt.com/


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,097 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    What's wrong with good ol' wget?


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    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,334 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    Spear wrote: »
    What's wrong with good ol' wget?
    can wget download a torrent file? I've only used it for web site content myself.


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    minion35
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭minion35


    croo wrote: »
    can wget download a torrent file? I've only used it for web site content myself.

    wget can only be used to download the .torrent file from a site, it can't download the actual files. You can use wget in conjunction with the bittorrent protocol to download files, a walk-through can be seen here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-command-line-bittorrent-client.html

    For a torrent client on I would recommend the following: Transmission (MAC, Linux, Unix and embedded systems) which can run either from either CLI or GUI, or kTorrent. Their is also a torrent client for Firefox called FoxTorrent which can be installed from the firefox addons.


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    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    μtorrent is a very good, lightweight client.

    http://www.utorrent.com/


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    #8
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 13,999 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Kget & Ktorrent ..... if using the KDE DE


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