qBittorrent Bittorrent client 4.1.7 was released yesterday. Here’s how to install in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and derivatives.

qBittorrent 4.1.7 features:

• Add 12 hour and 24 hour speed graphs
• Change “Add new torrent” dialog to horizontal layout
• Avoid race conditions when adding torrent
• Fix torrent checking issues
• Fix torrent properties not saved for paused torrents
• Some improvements on qtsingleapplication code
• Remove limits of “Disk cache expiry interval” setting
• Remove upper limit of “Disk cache” setting
• Don’t turn window blank when closed to system tray
• Fix WebUI encoding of special characters
• Change the speed unit of WebUI from Bytes/s to KiB/s for the rate limiter
• Ignore RSS articles with non-unique identifiers
• And various other bug-fixes. See news page for details.

How to Install qBittorrent 4.1.7 in Ubuntu:

The official qBittorrent PPA contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.04.

1. To add the PPA, open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching “Terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

Type user password (no asterisk feedback while typing due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2. To upgrade from a previous release, launch Software Updater and you’ll see qBittorrent available for upgrade after checking for updates.

Or run commands below to install /upgrade it from terminal:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install qbittorrent

Uninstall:

To remove qBittorrent PPA, go to Software & Updates -> Other Software, or run command in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

To remove the bittorrent client, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove qbittorrent