Duck has modified BitTorrent to run with I2P. In case you haven't been following the peer-to-peer world for the past year or so, BitTorrent is a program that allows mulitple clients to download a file through a 'swarming' technique, where every client is downloading from others, but uploading at the same time. First of all, to run I2P-BT, you'll need: - I2P - Python 2.2 or greater - wxPython 2.4 or greater Python ------ To check your version of Python, run % python -V at a command prompt. You should get output similar to this: Python 2.3.4 wxPython -------- This isn't strictly necessary, as it's only used for the GUI aspect. To check your version of wxPython, do the following at a command prompt: % python Python 2.3.4 (#2, Nov 9 2004, 22:58:53) [GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import wx >>> print wx.VERSION_STRING 2.4.2.4 >>> ctrl-d You need a version of at least 2.4 for the GUI of BitTorrent to work. Installing I2P-BT ----------------- Visit http://duck.i2p/i2p-bt/ and download the latest version (0.1.2 as of this writing). Extract it to a location of your choosing. You may wish to test if I2P-BT works by running one of the automated download scripts that comes with it. In the directory to which you extracted I2P-BT, run % get_mp3.sh To get a test mp3. It may take a while to start up. Downloading a File ------------------ First of all, you will have to obtain a torrent file from one of the sites around I2P that offer torrents for download. You should download this torrent to a convenient location for you on your computer. For convenience, you may wish to