Installing KTorrent on FreeNAS

[munificent]

First of all, apologies if this is posted in the wrong sub, since KTorrent is not an existing plugin, but this one seemed the best fit, so I thought I would ask my question here.

What I want is to install KTorrent on my system. I guess in the jail. I would like to get to the stage where I can see a webpage for it in the same way that I can see one now for Transmission. It seems a little complicated, but entirely achievable with a bit of common sense.

I would be very grateful for a step-by-step guide that leaves nothing out. Happy to provide more information if it is needed.

 

[HolyK]

Be aware that KTorrent does not support SSL (HTTPS) Tracker, or at least it didn't supported that on early 4.x version, don't know the actual situation...

 

[ben]

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Plugins#Installing_FreeBSD_Packages_with_pkg_add

This will get you started. Search around on the forums for things like "ping out of the jail", chances are that will lead you to information about accessing the jail from outside the FreeNAS box. AFAIK there's not a ktorrent-specific tutorial, though.

 

[munificent]

Holy, I will have to research the importance of that. You are saying it is open tracker only? And Ben, thank you I will start from there and post again when I get in trouble.

 

[munificent]

So, according to the documentation ben pointed me towads, the command "pkg_add -r ktorrent" tried to install some stuff but it seemed to not go smoothly. I followed up with "cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/ktorrent/ && make install clean" and got 'no such file or directory'.

So I slap down a "pkg_info -ox ktorrent" to discover there is 'no such package', then I tried "cd /usr/ports/" - 'no such directory'.

This puts me in a giant land of loss.

 

[William Grzybowski]

If you did read the docs you would find out that you need to fetch ports before compiling packages.... portsnap fetch extract

 

[munificent]

I did not read them all as I don't have time to become an expert. I was posting here looking for help to accomplish one task that is a little out of the ordinary. Not everyone is as familiar with the OS as you are, William.

 

[William Grzybowski]

Expert? If you don't have 5 minutes to read a very well written documentation that people have wasted a lot of time just for this purpose then perhaps it is just not for you.