Three Random Simple Questions

[Scott]

On 10/20/2005 04:55 AM, Dave M G wrote:

>Thank you for your responses. I might not have made it clear before that
>I am a newbie, so while I took the advice as far as I understood it, I
>did have a hard time processing it.
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>2. Installing bittorrent gui:
> "gnome-btdownload" is better than what I was having before, but is
>still not the desired interface. I was hoping for the official
>bittorrent client. I went to the web site and tried to download it
>straight from there, but I ended up with a .deb file that I don't know
>what to do with. I thought .deb files were like RPMs, in that they were
>specific to an installer. But I cant determine what that installer is.
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I wish I'd seen this thread sooner, but I was still sleeping then.  My 
answer would have been.

    sudo apt-get install bittorrent-gui


It would have saved you a lot of work.....