Bit Torrent Client with NAT Traversal

**Ghost** · 11-02-2006

I'll get right to my point. I'm looking for a bit torrent client that supports NAT traversal. In Windows, I use Bit Comet. Since there is no Linux build of Bit Comet, I'm looking for a client in Linux that will support many of the same functions. I've heard that Azureus supports NAT traversal but frankly I don't like Azureus. It's slow and it gives me endless amounts of error messages. I currently have Bit Tornado and Deluge Bit torrent clients installed but both programs seem significantly slower as far as download speeds go. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

For reference, I'm using Ubuntu Dapper 32-bit version.

**anomie** · 11-02-2006

I'm behing a NAT device and have used both Ktorrent (nice) and Transmission (very, very lightweight, but still a gui). No problems with either.

**Marsolin** · 11-02-2006

I also use KTorrent behind a NAT. QTorrent is another graphical option that you can try.

**Ghost** · 11-05-2006

I'm assuming Ktorrent is for use with KDE. I use Gnome. Are there any others (perhaps for Gnome) that are effective in getting through?

**devils casper** · 11-05-2006

BitTornado !!!

casper

**antidrugue** · 11-05-2006

According to this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...rrent_software

The only Linux BitTorrent Clients that supports NAT traversal are Localhost (an Azureus fork, now unmaintained), and Transmission.

**Ghost** · 11-06-2006

I've been having problems trying to build Transmission. I can build a command line version just fine but I have openSSL and GTK+ both installed on my machine. I want a nice interface.

Code:

System:  Linux
OpenSSL: missing, using built-in SHA1 implementation
GTK+:    no

Now use GNU make to build Transmission.
It may be called 'make' or 'gmake' depending on your system.

My system reports libgtk2.0-0 is already installed as well as openSSL.

**antidrugue** · 11-06-2006

Originally Posted by Ghost

My system reports libgtk2.0-0 is already installed as well as openSSL.

Yes, but that's not what you need. Transmission is asking for the development packages : libgtk2.0-dev and libssl-dev.

**Ghost** · 11-06-2006

When I try to install the dev package, I get this error:

Code:

chris@cminetti:~/Transmission-0.6.1$ ag libgtk2.0-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgtk2.0-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.8.17-1ubuntu5) but 2.8.20-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
                 Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.8.5) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.10.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.6.1-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

ag is my shortcut for "sudo apt-get install"

Does the above message mean I can't get libgtk2.0-dev through aptitude?

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