Apparently bittorrent was installed on the machine. But still, it won't recognize/use Python correctly. I tried running a torrent but got this error:

root@media1:/usr/bin# ./btdownloadgui /root/Desktop/Play_Casino.torrent
-bash: ./btdownloadgui: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory


So I edited btdownloadgui's first line

#!/usr/bin/python

to

#!/usr/bin/python2.3

Which resulted in:

root@media1:/usr/bin# ./btdownloadgui /root/Desktop/Play_Casino.torrent
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./btdownloadgui", line 7, in ?
from BitTorrent import version
ImportError: No module named BitTorrent


So now I'm completely lost. I'm going to give it another day and if noone answers or suggests a solution, I"m giving up and re-installing knoppix from the 3.3 distro.