Tried using Kget to dl a torrent for the first time and get "kget can not download this protocol". I have Ktorrent installed and thus libktorrent2 and Ktorrent opens the .torrent fine just fine.

I am running openSuse 11.3, kde4.6svn (don't ask) but yesterday before the upgrade using 4.5rc2 it also did not work.

thanks,

There is a problem with the openSUSE build of kget. For some reason during compilation it is not finding the ktorrent library that is necessary to compile the torrent plugin (or actually a cmake file for the library). I already sent an email to the opensuse-kde mailing list alerting them to the problem late last week, but they have not replied to the email or fixed the problem yet. The KDE:Distro:Factory KDE 4.5 RC2 builds also have this problem.

The problem is that KGet is dependent upon an Extragear library, libktorrent, for torrent support. It is possible however that this hasn't been split out from KTorrent itself yet, and as such has not been split as a package ( which would be needed in order to add the dependency )

It seems that I missed this email in the opensuse-kde mailinglist. I was on holidays during the month of July, so I guess that this might explain it.

We have separated packages for libktorrent and ktorrent itself, however kdenetwork still had as a dependency the ktorrent package instead of the libktorrent. I have adjusted this in the KDE:Unstable:SC repo for openSUSE (I guess this would be the 4.6svn) and will also make the necessary adjustments for the 4.5rc's repo.

Regards

Raymond

@tittiatcoke - I'm running 4.6svn and Kget now can process .torrent files BUT unlike Ktorrent there is not the option to select/deselect individual files icluded in the torrent - is this a bug? or just a functionality only available in a full service torrent client.

thanks,

Good to hear that it solved the original issue. Unfortunately I am just a packager and never used KGET for torrent files. So I don't know if this is a bug or missing functionality.

I checked the buildlog and there is no indication of missing build requirements, so the best thing would be to file a bug at bugs.kde.org.

Raymond

In Kubuntu 10.10 I can't find any torrent plugin for KGet. Is this a packaging issue too?

Probably. With openSUSE it is easy to see the build logs, I don't know about kubuntu. Did you submit a but report?

I'd submit a bug report on launchpad but I can't figure out how to do it. The documentation keeps sending me around in circles and ubuntu-bug doesn't work.

@molecule-eye: Where did you get your Kubuntu packages from?

@tittiatcoke: Please check the Optional section of the build log. Looks like openSUSE needs to add a dependency on libkonq (part of kdebase-apps), libortp, and linphone (mediastreamer). libktorrent provides the Torrent support in KGet, and is part of extragear, which probably presents issues...

bcooksley wrote:@molecule-eye: Where did you get your Kubuntu packages from?

I got them from the Ubuntu Maverick repo.