Guide to installing W3btorrent 0.1.3

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:50:39 +0000

This guide will tell you how to install w3btorrent 0.1.3. It is time consuming since the compiling of the various components takes a lot of time. There may be other ways of doing it but this worked for me. Most of the programs discribed here can be downloaded via optware but I could not get it to compile ctorrent. Aclocal-1.9 was missing. Installing 1.10 via optware had no effect. So I went back to the original guide I used to get it working before I upgraded the firmware => http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-25186/getting-a-working-torrent-program-on-mybook-world#post-66108
I did add a few modifications.
So here goes!

What to do first:
- Enable SSH on your My Book => http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/first-steps-with-mbwe
- Install Optware => http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/optware
- Set up a PHP enabled webserver (secure or public is up to you. w3btorrent has it's own login so I made mine public) => http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/web-server

Now to get down and dirty!
1) Login via SSH and become root by typing:

su

2) Download and install m4-1.4.10 with the following commands:

 cd /tmp wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.10.tar.gz tar –xvfz m4-1.4.10.tar.gz cd m4-1.4.10 ./configure make make install

Leave the folder by typing:

 cd ..

3) Download autoconf 2.61 by doing the following:

 wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.61.tar.gz tar –xvfz autoconf-2.62.tar.gz cd autoconf-2.62 ./configure make make install

Leave the folder by typing:

 cd ..

4) Download and install automake 1.9.1:

 wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.1.tar.gz tar –xvfz automake-1.9.1 cd automake-1.9.1 ./configure make make install

Leave the folder by typing:

 cd ..

5) Install libxml (this one takes ages!)

 wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libxml2/2.6/libxml2-2.6.27.tar.gz tar –xvfz libxml2-2.6.27.tar.gz cd libxml2-2.6.27 ./configure make make install cp /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2 /lib

leave the folder by typing

 cd ..

6) Now you need to enable shell commands from the http server:
Add line following line in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf using your favorite text editor:

 var.a=1

I put it in the first line

After you make these changes, you need to restart the Lighttpd and reboot the my book. Restarting Lighttpd is a good idea to see if it fails. You can then find out what went wrong and correct it:

 /etc/init.d/lighthttpd.sh restart reboot

NOW YOU ARE READY TO INSTALL w3btorrent!

7) Log back in via SSH after the reboot is complete and become root:

su

Go to your folder that you have selected to serve your webpages. In my case this is the one described in the webserver tutorial.
Create a folder there for w3btorrent and prepare it. Then download the installation php file and install w3btorrent.

 cd /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Public mkdir w3btorrent chmod 777 w3btorrent cd w3btorrent wget http://w3btorrent.thewulong.com/install-old.php

Now visit http:///w3btorrent/install-old.php and follow the instructions on the screen.

That's it! It's installed!

If, like me, your router has DynDNS installed you could set up a DynDNS domain and have access to your w3btorrent from anywhere via http:///w3btorrent

There are a fair few bugs in this release of w3btorrent. Most noticible is the torrent size changing to a huge size as soon as you start downloading but it works just fine in downloading it!

Enjoy!