Hi every body, the problem is that i can't find clear instructions how to really use ctorrent, i have searched this forum and the web to get answers but non have a clear instruction how to use ctorrent, i get confused in the end all the time after reading the guides. The steps i have taken:

1.) Downloaded the torrent file to Documents directory.
2.) Launched X Terminal.

.......and thats it, i am stuck after opening x terminal i have ctorrent installed. but don't know how to go from there, so please can u please guide me threw from there what should i type in x terminal start to finish. A step by step way to successfully download a torrent file. I know its a noob question but please ur help will be well appreciated, this matters to me the most wright now, again i thank you.

go read docs on ctorrent website. all is explained in detail. Basically, find a *.torrent file, then run ' torrent whatever-name.torrent '. Spice it up with cli options.

sorry i forgot to mention that after i have launched x terminal i typed in ctorrent, and then ctorrent info appears :

CTorrent dnh2 Original code Copyright: YuHong(992126018601033)
WARNING: THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR CTorrent. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

Generic Options:
-h/-H Show this message.
-x Decode metainfo(torrent) file only, don't download.
-c Check exist only. don't download.
-v Verbose output (for debugging).

Download Options:
-e int Exit while seed <int> hours later. (default 72 hours)
-E num Exit after seeding to <num> ratio (ULL).
-i ip Listen for connection on ip. (default all ip's)
-p port Listen port. (default 2706 -> 2106)
-s save_as Save file/directory/metainfo as...
-C cache_size Cache size,unit MB. (default 16MB)
-f Force seed mode. skip hash check at startup.
-b bf_filename Bit field filename. (use it carefully)
-M max_peers Max peers count.
-m min_peers Min peers count.
-z slice_size Download slice/block size, unit KB. (default 16, max 128).
-n file_number Which file download.
-D rate Max bandwidth down (unit KB/s)
-U rate Max bandwidth up (unit KB/s)
-P peer_id Set Peer ID [-CD0200-]
-S hostort Use CTCS server

Make metainfo(torrent) file Options:
-t With make torrent. must specify this option.
-u url Tracker's url.
-l piece_len Piece length.(default 262144)

eg.
hong> ctorrent -s new_filename -e 12 -C 32 -p 6881 eg.torrent

home page: http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/
see also: http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/
bug report: dholmes@ct.boxmail.com
original author: bsdi@sina.com




after that i type 'ctorrent torrent.file.name.torrent' then iget this error :

i don't know what iam doing wrong

You need to have the full directory name.

If your file is in /usr/home/torret.torrent, then you need to type :

ctorrent /usr/home/torrent.torrent

my file is in documents folder so i have to type :

ctorrent /usr/home/documents/torrent_file_name.torrent ????

If thats correct I still get the same error "No such file or directory
error,initial meta info failed."

Ok i managed to get it to work my file was in Document folder so i typed:
ctorrent /home/user/MyDocs/Torrent_file_name.torrent

Ok my next problem is that i can't pick the location for the torrent file to be

downloaded in case i wanna use my memory card but i can't, when the torrent

starts to download i can't type anything to change the file location, does any body

know how to do this thanks!

I'am not really sure because i dont have used ctorrent, but I guess it would download files in your current directory where you have launched ctorrent. At least rtorrent does like that.

What's the default location for ctorrent to save the torrent files? anyone knows?
becuase when i finshed downloading the torrent file, I couldn't find it anywhere in any directory.

It's going to download where ever the *.torrent file is located. The way I do it is to move the torrent file to one of my sd cards, then do the download thing.

I moved the torrent file to sd card and launched it from there it finished downloading but i couldn't find the file in the same folder where the original torrent was, or any where in the entire sd card directory.

Do you know whats wrong?