Transmission

I had some frustration trying to create a torrent for magnet distribution, and get it seamlessly integrated into the other torrents.

Eventually, I found the following fudge:

0) Put your files in your main torrent output directory.
1) Create the torrent file:
--> transmission-create NEWTORRENT -t ...

My server just trashed my Centos install, so I had to do it all again. Here are my cheat notes from struggling for a couple of hours last night.
Keywords for google: installing transmission torrent on Centos headless server web interface (for dummies).

I'll get two things out of the way, because ...

Thanks: yum install libevent-devel

That's the magic incantation in Centos that fixes the libevent problem, which can't be fixed using :./configure ...other options... LIBEVENT_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -levent"

If you don't get that right, then the compile goes ...