{"id":1930,"date":"2013-10-18T08:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2013-10-18T08:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:37:04","slug":"ctorrent-command-line-bittorrent-ubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/ctorrent-command-line-bittorrent-ubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"cTorrent &#8211; Command line bittorrent client for Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTorrent is a lightweight command-line bittorrent client which is written in the C++. Original ctorrent&#8217;s upstream has stopped its development and now it&#8217;s kept updated with new releases\/bug fixes by a new developer. It&#8217;s built as a console program and it can be even used remotely in a machine that provides outside ssh access. Other main features are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for large files (>2GB) and large torrents (>255 files).<\/li>\n<li>Strategic selection of pieces to request for download.<\/li>\n<li>Continuous queueing of download requests, tuned based on latency and throughput for each peer.<\/li>\n<li>Improved download performance, including parallel requests in initial and endgame modes.<\/li>\n<li>Improved bandwidth regulation.<\/li>\n<li>Improved compatibility with other peers.<\/li>\n<li>Performance optimization and bug fixes.<\/li>\n<li>An interface for monitoring and managing multiple clients.<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic cache allocation and management, including prefetch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Install cTorrent:<\/h3>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to do something special to install cTorrent, just search for and install the package from Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/install-ctorrent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/install-ctorrent.jpg\" alt=\"install-ctorrent\" width=\"560\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/install-ctorrent.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/install-ctorrent-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To run ctorrent:<\/p>\n<pre>ctorrent -s new_filename -e 12 -C 32 -p 6881 example.torrent<\/pre>\n<p>For more options, run:<\/p>\n<pre>ctorrent<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTorrent is a lightweight command-line bittorrent client which is written in the C++. Original ctorrent&#8217;s upstream has stopped its development and now it&#8217;s kept updated with new releases\/bug fixes by a new developer. It&#8217;s built as a console program and it can be even used remotely in a machine that provides outside ssh access. Other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[327,573,706],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-bittorrent","tag-bittorrent-client","tag-ctorrent"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}