Installing deluge-torrent

Michael Daunheimer

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May 25, 2009, 11:18:13 AM5/25/09

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Hi everybody,

I am trying to install deluge-torrent (http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/) on my debian on NSLU2. However, I am new to Debian and after hours I still run in several problems, dependencies and errors.

I tried:
1) apt-get install deluge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package deluge is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package deluge has no installation candidate

2) apt-get install deluge-torrent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Note, selecting deluge instead of deluge-torrent
Package deluge is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package deluge has no installation candidate

I also tried to install by dpkg -i with a manually downloaded package, but it wants sooo many other packages (my python is still 2.4.4)

My sources.list is:
# deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

APT-GET.ORG gave me a result for 'deluge' but adding that in sources.list resulted in a 404.

Can anybody help, please?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

thunder

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May 25, 2009, 12:01:51 PM5/25/09

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On Mon, 25 May 2009 17:18:13 +0200, Michael Daunheimer wrote:

> My sources.list is:

> deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src
> http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main

As near as I can tell, etch doesn't have a deluge package. Sid does,
however.

Mark Madsen

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May 25, 2009, 1:07:32 PM5/25/09

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Etch never had Deluge, but it's been in Lenny for at least a year
already, and is in Squeeze as well. No need to go radical to get it :-)

It's a very nice torrent client, I've had it running for 50 days at a
time with no glitches.

Michael Daunheimer

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May 26, 2009, 3:32:51 AM5/26/09

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>>> My sources.list is:
>>> deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src
>>> http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main
>>
>> As near as I can tell, etch doesn't have a deluge package. Sid does,
>> however.
>
> Etch never had Deluge, but it's been in Lenny for at least a year
> already, and is in Squeeze as well. No need to go radical to get it :-)

Sorry, I don't quite know what that means, as I am taking first steps with Debian. Do I need a new install with different operating system distribution, or change the sources.list (how) or anything else?

Thanks a lot!
Michael

Nikos Chantziaras

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May 26, 2009, 6:21:11 AM5/26/09

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You are using Debian 4. The current release is Debian 5.

Debian 4 is called "Etch". Debian 5 is called "Lenny". You can update
from 4 to 5 or install from scratch. You can find guides on the Debian
site.

Michael Daunheimer

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May 26, 2009, 7:04:25 AM5/26/09

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> You are using Debian 4. The current release is Debian 5.
> Debian 4 is called "Etch". Debian 5 is called "Lenny". You can update
> from 4 to 5 or install from scratch. You can find guides on the Debian
> site.

Oh, thanks. But I am running that on a Linksys NSLU2 with very limited memory and CPU. It uses a special firmware (bootloader for the debian os on external harddrive). I am not sure if updating is that easy and compatible with the NSLU2.

Any experience with that?

Thanks,
Michael

Nikos Chantziaras

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May 26, 2009, 7:09:47 AM5/26/09

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A bit off-topic to your reply, but wasn't your original goal to have
something that you can run through SSH? I still believe that rTorrent,
which is a command-line torrent client (it uses ncurses), is a better
choice. You will be able to run it on the box in the background with
the "screen" utility and have access to it when you login through SSH.

J G Miller

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May 26, 2009, 7:55:06 AM5/26/09

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On Tue, 26 May 2009 13:04:25 +0200, Michael Daunheimer wrote:

> But I am running that on a Linksys NSLU2 with very limited
> memory and CPU.

I am running Debian on a Linksys NSLU2 and successfully upgraded from
Etch to Lenny.

Michael Daunheimer

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May 28, 2009, 5:47:48 AM5/28/09

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Hello everybody,

thank you very much for the hints so far!
I managed to upgrade to Debian "5.0.1" and installed "deluge-torrent" and "deluge-torrent-common".

Now I tried so start the daemon and wanted to install some web interface, since the only access is ssh (NSLU, no console)..
'deluged'
=> -su: deluged: command not found

'deluge --ui null'
=>/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: could not open display
=> warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
=>Usage: deluge [options] [torrents to add]
=>deluge: error: no such option: --ui

What is the name of the WebUI, that I need to install? I tried 'apt-get install gtkui' but it cannot find the package..

Thanks a lot!
Michael