::ErrorOK

here is a quick and easy way to upgrade to the latest rtorrent on karmic. Basically we just snag it from lucid.

There are two basic methods to do this, the easiest is debatable between the two. Personally, i just tried method one, but i’m sure method two would work just as well.

Method 1:

1. head to http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/rtorrent
2. download the deb for your architecture
3. download the deb for each of the following dependent packages:
   1. libssl
   2. librtorrent
   3. libxmlrpc
   4. libxmlrpc-core
4. install each of the packages by running sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Method 2:

update your apt sources to lucid, do an apt update and then install rtorrent.  This should get the lucid packages and dependents.  Just remember to revert your changes to the apt source.

Like i said, i did method one, mostly because i was curious which packages i would need to backport to get rtorrent upgraded to version 0.8.6.  If you are curious why one might do this, it is because there are significant changes made to libtorrent and rtorrent, and this is an easy way to get access to them.

There may be some remaining issues to deal with regarding libxmlrpc, this is something i will look into once i have had a chance to work with this new version of rtorrent.

No Comments Yet...