News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
qBittorrent, the popular free open-source Qt based BitTorrent client, released version 5.0.3 along with 5.1.0 Beta one day ago on Tuesday.
Changlog for the new 5.1.0 Beta so far is not available. But for version 5.0.3, it’s a maintenance release that includes primarily bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates.
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Transmission, the popular free open-source BitTorrent client, announced the Beta release of next 4.1.0 version today!
The new release features optional sequential downloading support. Which, is useful when you want to watch large videos/movies while they are being downloaded.
However, I don’t find a graphical option to do the job, but only command line option -seq or --sequential-download for transmission-cli.
Transmission, Ubuntu’s default BitTorrent client, announced a new bug-fix 4.0.5 release a day ago.
The release fixed the following bugs:
Transmission has an unofficial Snap package, available to install through Ubuntu Software (or App Center).
It’s NOT updated to v4.0.5 at the moment of writing, but after installation, it will update automatically once new version published.
For choice, I’ve made this release into unofficial PPA for all current Ubuntu releases, meaning Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 23.04 and 23.10.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. After adding the PPA, you can then launch Software Updater (Update Manager) and upgrade the system pre-installed transmission package to the new release.
For Ubuntu based system without the BitTorrent client pre-installed, you may run command below to install it:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install transmission-gtk
You may replace transmission-gtk with (or add) following package:
transmission-qt – Qt user interface for KDE, LXQt, etc.transmission-cli – command line interface.transmission-daemon – the daemon for running in background, and access via webUI, remote client, etc.You can choose to downgrade the BitTorrent client to system pre-installed version, by running command in terminal:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
Or, remove the software packages instead by running command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove transmission-gtk transmission-qt transmission-cli transmission-daemon
And remove the PPA repository either via “Software & Updates” tool by removing the source line under “Other Software” tab, or by running command:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
That’s all. Enjoy!
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest qBittorrent 4.6.2 (the Qt5 build) from PPA in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
qBittorrent has an official PPA, which however seems no longer updating for Ubuntu 22.04 since v4.6 release series.
User can choose to install the Flatpak package, which runs in sandbox. But if you prefer the classic .deb package, then here’s new unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04.
While Ubuntu 22.04 has Qt6 6.2.4 in system repository, now qBittorrent requires at least Qt6 6.4. That could be the reason the official PPA stop updating for 22.04. Thankfully, Qt5 version is still supported, so I built it into PPA for those who need it.
Features in qBittorrent 4.6.x
The PPA package uses the total same debian/rule from the official PPA. It seems working good in my case though with minor testing.
1. Add the PPA
Firstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/qbittorrent
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo authentication and hit Enter to continue.
2. Update system package cache
Ubuntu now automatically refresh system package cache while adding PPA, but Linux Mint does NOT.
To do it, simply run command:
sudo apt update
3. Install or Update to qBittorrent 4.6.2
If you’re using the torrent client package from either system repository or its official PPA, simply launch Software Updater (Update Manager) to update it.
Or, run the command below in terminal window to install/update it:
sudo apt install qbittorrent
To uninstall the torrent client package, open terminal and run command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove qbittorrent libtorrent-rasterbar2.0
Also, remove the unofficial Ubuntu PPA either by running command:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/qbittorrent
or by removing source line under Other Software tab in “Software & Updates” tool.
qBittorrent, the popular Qt-based BitTorrent client, released version 4.6.0 this Sunday!
The new release introduced experimental support for I2P, a peer to peer fully encrypted private network layer, allowing to transfer data in a more secure way.
The ‘Preferences’ dialog now have “Customize UI Theme” button in the behavior tab. It allows to set custom colors and icons, by double-clicking action, for both light and dark mode when using the default theme.
qBittorrent 4.6.0 also features many other changes, including option to add new torrents to queue top, filter torrent list by save path, option to stop seeding when torrent has been inactive, as well as:
Option 1: AppImage
The software provides official Linux package through .AppImage package, available to download the link below:
It’s a non-install package, that can be run directly to launch the torrent client. Just right-click on .AppImage file and go to ‘Properties’, then enable “Allow executing as program” option under Permissions tab. Finally, click run it to launch the app.
For choices, you can also install qBittorrent 4.6.0 through Flatpak and Ubuntu PPA.
Option 2: Flatpak
Like AppImage, Flatpak is another package format runs in sandbox. All current Ubuntu releases can easily install qBittorrent as Flatpak, by running 2 commands below one by one.
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent.flatpakref
Option 3: Ubuntu PPA
UPDATE: Due to requirement of Qt > 6.5.0, the PPA will NOT update for Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and earlier.
For those who prefer the native .deb package format, qBittorrent has an official Ubuntu PPA. Though, it’s NOT updated at the moment of writing (check the previous link).
To add the PPA, and install the app package, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. And, run commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install qbittorrent
Depends on how you installed the software package, uninstall it by running either command below in terminal.
flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent
Also run flatpak uninstall --delete-unused to remove useless run-time libraries.
sudo apt remove --autoremove qbittorrent
Also remove the Ubuntu PPA, either by removing source line through “Software & Updates” utility under Other Software tab. Or, by running the command below in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
For Ubuntu 23.04, Debian 12, Fedora 38 and other Linux with GNOME 43/44, there’s now an extension allows to monitor and control your remote Transmission downloads via system tray indicator.
It uses Transmission RPC protocol for interacting with remote PC/server that is running Transmission GTK, daemon, or Fragments.
With the indicator, user can easily add new download via torrent link, monitor all the downloading process, and one click to open the web UI with more options.
For Ubuntu 23.04 user, firstly search for and install “Extension Manager” from Ubuntu Software.
Install Extension Manager in Ubuntu 22.04+
Then launch “Extension Manager” and use the tool to search and install “Transmission Daemon Indicator NG” extension.
For other Linux with GNOME 43/44, just go to the link below:
Then, turn ON the toggle switch to install the extension. If you don’t see the ON/OFF switch, install browser extension and refresh the page.
Once installed, the applet should appear immediately on your panel. You can open the settings page either from applet’s drop-down menu, or via “Extension Manager”.
Of course, in the server (either local or remote) that’s running Transmission, you have to enable the Remote Control first from preferences.
Transmission GTK, enable Remote Control
For Transmission daemon running in the background, edit the ‘/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json‘ file to enable RPC remote control, setup user & password, whitelist, etc, before being able to connect.
Remember to use systemctl reload transmission-daemon.service to apply changes, since start or restart may reset your password in the config file.
Transmission BitTorrent client got another bug-fix release for the new major 4.0.0 that was released a month ago.
The new Transmission 4.0.2 fixed the bug that some torrents thought they were magnet links, auto-add watch folder issue for macOS, broken speed limits for utp peers, and using announce-list when creating single-tracker private torrents.
The release also restored support for path.utf-8 keys in torrent info dictionaries, fixed potential crash when downloading from webseeds or receiving malformed piece data from peers.
There are also various other bug-fixes, including:
Transmission does not provide official binary packages for Linux. Besides building from the source tarball, user can either use the universal Flatpak package or an Ubuntu PPA.
For those prefer the classic .deb package, this unofficial PPA has been updated with the latest packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 22.10.
The new web user interface depends on NPM (Node.js package manager). It requires internet connection while building process, but launchpad build farm does NOT have. Meaning so far the PPA package does not include new web UI via JavaScript, but the old web user interface for remote control is stilling working.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. After adding the PPA, you can then launch Software Updater (Update Manager) and upgrade the system pre-installed transmission package to the new 4.0.2 release.
For Ubuntu based system without the BitTorrent client pre-installed, you may run command below to install it:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install transmission-gtk
You may replace transmission-gtk with (or add) following package:
transmission-qt – Qt user interface for KDE, LXQt, etc.transmission-cli – command line interface.transmission-daemon – the daemon for running in background, and access via webUIYou can choose to downgrade the BitTorrent client to system pre-installed version, by running command in terminal:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
Or, remove the software packages instead by running command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove transmission-gtk transmission-qt transmission-cli transmission-daemon
And remove the PPA repository either via “Software & Updates” tool by removing the source line under “Other Software” tab, or by running command:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
That’s all. Enjoy!
The Transmission BitTorrent client released version 4.0.0 a few days ago. Here’s PPA repository contains the package for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10, Linux Mint 21/20.
According to the release note, transmission 4.0 features new C++ and gtkmm code-base, with much less CPU and memory usage than before. It also adds support for using BitTorrent v2 and hybrid torrents, support for IPv6 blocklists, and more.
I’ve built the new release packages into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 20.04 and higher. Ubuntu 18.04 is not supported due to dependency library version mis-match.
The new web user interface depends on NPM (Node.js package manager). It requires internet connection while building process, but launchpad build farm does NOT have. Meaning so far the PPA package does not include new web UI via JavaScript, but the old web user interface for remote control is stilling working in my case in Ubuntu 22.04.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. After adding the PPA, you can then launch Software Updater (Update Manager) and upgrade the system pre-installed transmission package to the new 4.0.0 release.
For Ubuntu based system without the BitTorrent client pre-installed, you may run command below to install it:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install transmission-gtk
You may replace transmission-gtk with (or add) following package:
transmission-qt – Qt user interface for KDE, LXQt, etc.transmission-cli – command line interface.transmission-daemon – the daemon for running in background, and access via webUIYou can choose to downgrade the BitTorrent client to system pre-installed version, by running command in terminal:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
Or, remove the software packages instead by running command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove transmission-gtk transmission-qt transmission-cli transmission-daemon
And remove the PPA repository either via “Software & Updates” tool by removing the source line under “Other Software” tab, or by running command:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission
That’s all. Enjoy!
Transmission, the default torrent downloading app for Ubuntu, announced the new major 4.0.0 release today!
The new release migrated the codebase from C to C++ programming language. And now it uses the gtkmm toolkit instead of GTK for its user interface. With the code improvements, it can even have 50% less CPU and 70% fewer memory usage.
Transmission 4.0.0 introduced support for using BitTorrent v2 and hybrid torrents. In ‘Preferences’ ->’Network’ settings page, there’s option to set default public trackers. And in “Seeding” settings page, it allows to call a custom script when done seeding.
Other changes in Transmission 4.0.0 include:
Windows and macOS users can download the new release package from the software website:
For Linux user, there’s no package at the moment of writing. But as a lazy man, I use this pre-installed app to download torrents in Ubuntu frequently. If possible, I’ll make a deb package in case no PPA packages available in next few days.
UPDATE: here it is the PPA for Transmission 4.0.0 with Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 22.10 support. Sadly, new WebUI excluded but it seems working with old web interface.
qBittorrent got a new major release this weekend. Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu 22.04
qBittorrent 4.5.0 features new icon theme, new color theme, better startup time, and export torrent support. And, it now uses libtorrent 2.0.x in the default binary packages.
Other changes include:
As well, there are various bug-fixes in the release. See more in the news page.
UPDATE: Due to requirement of Qt6 >= 6.5.0, the PPA will no longer update for Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04, and 20.04. For newer releases, see this tutorial for other installation methods.
The software has an official Ubuntu PPA which however updates the latest package so far only for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10, Linux Mint 21 and their based systems.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
Type user password when it asks (no asterisk feedback) and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then, either run software updater (Update Manager) to update the bittorrent client if an old version was installed.
Or install it using command:
sudo apt install qbittorrent
For Linux Mint, either use Software Manager after refreshing package cache, or run sudo apt update before running the command above.
Option 1: If you want to downgrade qBittorrent package to stock version in system repository, install ppa-purge tool and purge the PPA by running command in terminal:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
Option 2: Or, remove the client package either via Ubuntu Software or by running command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove qbittorrent
And, remove the PPA either via ‘Software & Updates‘ utility under ‘Other Software’ tab or by running command:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
