It works!!
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:35 am
As a dedicated utorrent user before I switched to Mac, I couldn't really find a real replacement for it on OS X until now - I'd tried almost all of them and reluctantly settled into life with Azureus. To make matters worse, my isp is notorious for its traffic shaping and throttling practices and every torrent client I tried didn't seem to make a difference. I had read that Deluge may be my saviour...however, I ran into a lot of difficulty trying to get Deluge (and MacPorts) installed and running on my MacBook (Tiger 10.4.11) After a lot of time and trial and error, I finally got Deluge working and it was worth the trouble. For the first time in almost 2 years, I am actually seeing true "hi-speed" DL rates on moderately seeded torrents...it really kicks ass! So I just wanted to thank the devs for this awesome torrent client...it's not perfect (on OS X at least) but it does what it's meant to do and does it very well, and it's easily the best there is in my mind out there for OS X!
Also, to any other OS X users who might be having trouble getting Deluge and MacPorts up and running, and who aren't n00bs to torrents but may not be frequent terminal or X11 users, and found the lack of resources/awareness surprising and frustrating, I can share with you what I found helpful in my search (YMMV)...for me it was all about getting MacPorts installed and working, once I finally figured that part out, installing Deluge was a breeze (it just took a long time...be patient!). Here's the MacPorts guides that helped me:
http://www.macports.org/install.php#pkg
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macpo ... ngMacPorts
http://guide.macports.org/
The key is having Xcode, X11 and the X11SDK installed before you install MacPorts. As well, make sure you have the changes to the shell environment implemented correctly - http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell
In my specific case, it turned out that I didn't have a .profile file created in my home directory even after using the macports installer pkg which is supposed to create this file via a script run during installation (maybe a problem with the installer pkg?). After I created a .profile on my own, I was able to execute the "sudo" commands in terminal and get Deluge to download/install...but like I said it will take a while for Deluge to install/compile, in my case close to 4 hours, so just let it run and be patient. In the end, I know I still didn't nail the installation of MacPorts 100% correctly (esp. the shell settings) and use roundabout way of launching Deluge, but it works nonetheless.
Good luck and thanks again to the devs!!!
Also, to any other OS X users who might be having trouble getting Deluge and MacPorts up and running, and who aren't n00bs to torrents but may not be frequent terminal or X11 users, and found the lack of resources/awareness surprising and frustrating, I can share with you what I found helpful in my search (YMMV)...for me it was all about getting MacPorts installed and working, once I finally figured that part out, installing Deluge was a breeze (it just took a long time...be patient!). Here's the MacPorts guides that helped me:
http://www.macports.org/install.php#pkg
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macpo ... ngMacPorts
http://guide.macports.org/
The key is having Xcode, X11 and the X11SDK installed before you install MacPorts. As well, make sure you have the changes to the shell environment implemented correctly - http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell
In my specific case, it turned out that I didn't have a .profile file created in my home directory even after using the macports installer pkg which is supposed to create this file via a script run during installation (maybe a problem with the installer pkg?). After I created a .profile on my own, I was able to execute the "sudo" commands in terminal and get Deluge to download/install...but like I said it will take a while for Deluge to install/compile, in my case close to 4 hours, so just let it run and be patient. In the end, I know I still didn't nail the installation of MacPorts 100% correctly (esp. the shell settings) and use roundabout way of launching Deluge, but it works nonetheless.
Good luck and thanks again to the devs!!!