setup help

[weenden]

i have a hostingie seedbox trying to install setup like my leeware/tzulo and i cant get it to install yum does anyone have a guide was there one done that i could not find please help the dummy it says yum not found

[Artemis]

what operating system did you request for your seedbox ? YUM (yellow dog update manager) is the installation tool for redhat/fedora based Linux distributions, but if your distro is a different Linux fork then YUM will not be the package manager.

[weenden]

i think its " PLESK " thought i was getting something else but in my haste i probably screwed up if anyone has set up this kind of operating system and can help id be grateful

[kaoblanco]

No, Plesk is an Admin interface. You need to find out what distro of linux you have. Fedora Core, centos, debian..? Hosting-IE offers them all. Check your welcome email.

What server package did you get, though?

[weenden]

its debian-4.0-x86 my bad man i have to do better than i am im a dope at times

[weenden]

anyone no how please :)

[Artemis]

Since you are using Debian etch the package manager is apt (Advanced Programming Tool), instead of yum, the command line to install using apt is apt-get install (packagename) you need to be root user to install software using apt but apart from that most commands are similar to what you were using before to install and configure you leeware server. You will however need to install the xorg server first in order to use vnc etc.

[weenden]

ok done cept didnt take xterm says it may be opseleted dunno but when i typed in the vncserver nothing happened said name or service unkown ,,man this ones a toughie for me

[Fibre]

Install rTorrent!

[nikmash232]

pm me and ill try to help you...

[Artemis]

Like I said before you need to install the xorg server first, this is the xwindow manager and gives you a basic gui otherwise the distro is command line, you can run rtorrent from the command line but you need to know what you are doing. So the first thing you need to install through apt is xorg : apt-get install xorg, this will setup the dependencies and install xorg, you can then begin to install the other components you need.

[Fibre]

If you can install GUI you can install rTorrent :)

[DV8type]

rTorrent
<3

[beat]

rTorrent + SCP (to copy the torrents to the watch folder) = <3

Runs lighter, runs better and is also easy to use.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki

Although on Debian the packages they have on their repositories is kind of outdated (as usual) so installing a recent version it's a bit more difficult.

If you don't really care about running the bleeding edge just set your repositories to unstable/testing and do "apt-get install rtorrent". Then you just need to read the wiki to know how to use rtorrent and you're all set. :)

[weenden]

artemis said So the first thing you need to install through apt is xorg : apt-get install xorg, this will setup the dependencies and install xorg, you can then begin to install the other components you need. but when i did this it said could not find package i no its there some where i can see it in some folder maybe root folder

[Artemis]

If apt can't find the package it is because it is not listed in the repositories, it is truly odd that apt cannot find that package, but you will need to update the repository lists so that apt can find and download the apps you need.

[weenden]

how do i update the repository list man im a dummy doooh~

[weenden]

evean when i updated they still cant find packages

[Fibre]

Compile it yourself?

[weenden]

you have to rember im a newbie a debian its a different world i even put the packages into the folder it suposed to go to ,to reconise the pkgs and still says cant find pkgs im at my wits end even when i update

[Fibre]

What exactly do you want done? Are you happy to use rTorrent as a client? You can use RSSdler to grab torrents from RSS feeds.

[weenden]

i want to install vncserver also would like to install firefox and then utorrent and i cant get it to do anything

[toadyus]

if your trying to install a package with apt-get and it's not finding it you need to change your apt sources.../etc/apt/sources.list then run a apt-get update...use google to find good sources...the debiansecurity ones installed by default tend to suck.