BitTorrent on Debian How-to

01SEP2007

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ssh yourserver.tld

Install the necessary programs

apt-get install bittorrent bittornado

Upload the file you want to provide via BitTorrent

scp ./input.ext username@server.tld:/webroot

create the torrent files

btmakemetafile http://yourserver.tld/announce input.ext --target output.torrent

Start the tracker

bttrack.bittorrent --port 6969 --dfile btstatus &

Seed the file

nohup btdownloadheadless --responsefile ./output.torrent --super_seeder 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Logout from the server

exit

And Download the file with your preferred BitTorrent client at

http://yourserver.tld/outfile.torrent

Get download statistics at

http://yourserver.tld:6969/

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