[CentOS] Cannot get rtorrent to run

Sat Jun 22 13:47:23 UTC 2013
Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com>

>$ rtorrent foobar.torrent
>rtorrent: symbol lookup error: rtorrent: undefined symbol:
>_ZN7torrent10ThreadBase8m_globalE
>
>Why is this happening?

The first hit on google leads you to https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/issues/81
which points you to https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/issues/206 which finally
offers a repo that works: http://www.fateyev.com/RPMS/RHEL6/base/.

I have been using those packages for some time w/o issue.