Frequently Asked Questions

So this is like some warez thing, right? Does this mean people are going to swap bootlegged software and music through me?

Absolutely not. You only transmit the files for which you have chosen .torrent files. We here at the LNX-BBC project only put up images that have passed at least a cursory test of license integrity, similar to that of Debian's. All of the torrents we provide are freely modifiable and redistributable.

I'm behind NAT. How can I serve anything?

The tracker attempts to compensate for this by notifying your machine to connect to the downloader. This means that you can't upload anything to anyone who is also behind NAT, but you can still do your part.

So do I need to run the tracker?

No. The .torrent files we provide have the lnx-bbc tracker hard-coded into them. You just need to download in a "file and forget" fashion, and you'll be helping Join Us Now And Share The Software!

I'm using Debian's packages, and I get an ImportError when I try to run any of the downloaders!

The default python for Debian is 2.1 in Testing, but the latest packages seem to have been built against 2.2. Fortunately there's no real compatability issue. You can safely solve this one by doing:

$ cd /usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/
$ ln -sf /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/BitTorrent/

This is the most robust solution, since it won't interfere with any future upgrades (unless you muck about in /usr/local/lib/python2.1 a lot).