It took me a few hours (well, maybe more) to set it up and running
under a debian 5 stable, I've got to set my repos to unstable to reach
your package and an up to date rtorrent package (instead of 0.7.9 that
comes with stable) and then go back to stable again to get some
dependencies in order to not having conflicts with a 400+ dependencies
I was required to upgrade in order to instal xmlrpc... and another
issue I came across in the process that I could solve thanks to
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21634/tar-unrecognized-option-warning-during-apt-get-install
(dpkg died due to switching to unstable, it got updated somehow
without updating packages it depends on)
I just have to say that if you add a torrent file by URL it is not
being stored in the watch directory, so when it goes completed and
after that, the server is restarted, you loose it from the list. I
don't know if someone already mentioned that.
But at the end, everything was worth it! Tons of options with a great
design!
An http link to the downloaded files and the ability to delete them
would be a great add-on, I'm just linking the downloads dir so apache
can do the trick. (tho, I will have to delete them manually from ftp/
ssh or set up a cron that deletes the old ones. Hard disk space is not
much generous in low cost dedicated servers)
If someone wants to give it a try on debian also, I recommend
switching to unstable, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade and do not
come back to stable again! =)
Keep up the good job!