fresh off the boat

Karl kaha at colug.org
Sat Mar 12 17:13:56 UTC 2005


There are several bittorrent executables, none of which is called
"bittorrent".  :)
At your command prompt, enter bt and hit tab a couple times.


On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 11:59 -0500, Tab Gilbert wrote:

> Just starting but can not figure out (find) how to make make an
> application run (show up) on the menu.
> 
> 
> from a gnome-terminal type:
> 
> sudo apt-get install bittorrent
> 
> So it says I have it installed but I can not find where it is located.
>  Got a folder to appear under the applications menu but get confused
> after that.  I go to Create Laucher and then can not find bittorrent
> and do not know the proper command.
> 
> Did the:
> applications:////
> which did not work.  
> 
> Everything I have seen in the various help/documentation sections just
> seems to assume I know something which is not the case.  I am missing
> this small vital link.
> 
> Goal:
> Install and run bittorrent to get the livecd
> figure out how to do a checksum cause I have done 3 direct downloads
> of hoary and everyone of them shows a bad checksum during install.
> 
> 
> Sorry for jumping around (still learning how to format an inquiry) 
> and asking a very basic question but I getting frustrated with
> something that should be rather simple.
> 
> Next:
> can see hp psc 2210 printer but spits out  page with !PS_Adobe-3.0
> etc. at top and then keeps throwing out blank pages uptil empty.
> 
> Thank you to everyone involved in this operation,  
> ---
> Warty
> Gateway E-2000
> 


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