Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Released

Few hours ago latest version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) was released. After three days without Internet connection, today evening the damaged optical fiber was patched just in time for the release. As I am writing this post my laptop is downloading the packages to complete the upgrade from Alpha release.

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 9.04 in the following press releases:

• Desktop edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop
  
• Server edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-server
  
• Netbook Remix http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-unr
  
  

Meanwhile in the server room I am seeding ubuntu 9.04 desktop (i386) image via bittorrent . If you are downloading Ubuntu in India, I suggest you download this torrent file. I think I would continue seeding this image until the end of the month (30 April, 2009).

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BitTorrent "INFO : duplicate connection (id collision) " log messages

BitTorrent 4.20.x (and later) now logs all its messages and errors to its logs¹. Here is one log message that mystified me.

[4.20.4 2006-09-01 04:10:39] INFO : duplicate connection (id collision)

[4.20.4 2006-09-01 04:10:48] INFO : duplicate connection (id collision)

[4.20.4 2006-09-01 04:10:52] INFO : duplicate connection (id collision)


[4.20.4 2006-09-01 04:11:03] INFO : duplicate connection (id

BitTorrrent Support provides a clear answer.

This message is harmless and can be ignored. It means that a request for data was sent to a peer you are already connected to. This is most common when there are few peers in the swarm for a given torrent. It does not affect your down or upload speed in any way.

¹ Bittorrents logs file under UNIX, GNU/Linux operating systems are found under $HOME/.bittorrent/bittorrent-{cosole,curses}.log

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libTorrent / rTorrent 0.7.0 debian packages available

UPDATE: Never version of rTorrent made into Debian (Sid) since this entry was first posted.

Rakshasa’s libTorrent and rTorrent Unstable Release (0.7.0) Debian packages are now available

The Debian Sid/unstable rtorrent package is still stable release (0.6.4.x). A wishlist was posted and you can use this repo until the main debian packages are upgraded.

You can add this line to your sources.list and apt-get the packages.

deb http://repos.ghostbar.ath.cx/debian sid main

Or grab the packages directly from http://debian.ghostbar.ath.cx/

The adding of public keys for this repo however didn’t work. Perhaps am missing something here.

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv 0xCACAB118 && gpg --export 0xCACAB118 | sudo apt-key add -

[OR]

wget http://pub.ghostbar.ath.cx/pubkey-ghostbar.gpg
sudo apt-key add pubkey-ghostbar.gpg

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BitTorrent 4.20.x python2.4 packages on Debian

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution file sharing tool written by programmer Bram Cohen. His reference implementation is written in Python and is available for download on bittorrent.com

The current stable BitTorrent version 4.20.4 debian package for Python2.4 depends on python (>= 2.4).

 Package: bittorrent
 Version: 4.20.4
 Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: all
 Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-wxgtk2.6, python-twisted (>= 2.0), python-cryp

to (>= 2.0), python-psyco, python-zopeinterface
 Conflicts: bittorrent (<< 4.20.4), bittorrent-gui (<< 4.20.4)


 
......
 
Maintainer: BitTorrent, Inc. <bugs@bittorrent.com>
 Source: bittorrent
 Description: Scatter-gather network file transfer
  BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It's extremely
  easy to use - downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks.
  Whenever more than one person is downloading at once
  they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus relieving
  the central server's bandwidth burden. Even with many
  simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server
  remains quite small, since each new downloader introduces new
  upload capacity.
  .
   Homepage: http://bittorrent.com/





The policy on my debian/sid system is still points to 2.3.5-11.

$ apt-cache policy python


python:
Installed: 2.3.5-11
Candidate: 2.3.5-11
Version table:
*** 2.3.5-11 0
990 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The workaround until debian packages moves over python2.4 as its default version is download the source the source and build your own debian package.

Uncompress the source

$ tar zxvf BitTorrent-4.20.4.tar.gz

Edit the BitTorrent-4.20.4/debian/control file depends line.

Depends: python2.4 (>= PYTHONVERSION)

Build and install the debian package.

$ sh build_nix_pkg.sh deb

$ dpkg -i BitTorrent-4.20.4/dist/bittorrent_4.20.4_python2.4.deb

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