disco_lad Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 When a torrent file is finish downloading, does it check the sum like MD5? Is there a good torrent downloading software for linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 (edited) I dont know if it has a features that check the MD5 automatically, but you can always check the md5 manually... like if you are downloading linux-iso from torrent, you can always check the MD5sum manually then compare it to its website MD5sum list but if you'v downloaded a software that does not have a legitimate source of MD5sum to compare with, then its up to you... Is there a good torrent downloading software for linux? google torrent client for linux and google will be happy to show you all Edited October 19, 2005 by aioshin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 The wikipedia article Bit_Torrent gives an interesting introduction - according to this "As soon as the client finishes importing a block, it hashes it to make sure that the block matches what the torrent file said it should be." So it does this for each of the (many) blocks into which the file is split. As for a client, I just used urpmi and put "torrent" in the search box. I got "bittorrent-4.0.1" and "bittorrent-gui-4.0.1" which give a reasonably slick interface. Although I've only used it for "Star Wreck" so far (thanks for the tip, AussieJohn!). Works fine though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco_lad Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 ok thanks for the help one question are there torrent downloaders the I should stay away from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 If you a heavy downloader meaning you want to download more things in the same time you better use Azureus. This is probably the most popular torrent client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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