{"id":7725,"date":"2018-05-06T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2018-05-06T15:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T15:26:27","slug":"install-transmission-2-94-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/install-transmission-2-94-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Transmission 2.94 in Ubuntu 18.04\/17.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/transmission-bittorrent-icon.png\" alt=\"Transmission BitTorrent\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5697\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transmission, the default BitTorrent client, reached the 2.94 release a few days ago. Now you can install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04 easily via PPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/transmission\/transmission\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">Transmission 2.94<\/a> is a bug-fix release with following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix building against LibreSSL<\/li>\n<li>Fix building against mbedTLS<\/li>\n<li>Fix torrents ETA calculation<\/li>\n<li>Fix cross-compilation issues caused by miniupnpc configuration test<\/li>\n<li>Fix bad downloaded percentage in DetailsDialog for Qt client<\/li>\n<li>Fix tracker error XSS in inspector for web client<\/li>\n<li>Fix torrent name HTML-escaping in trackers inspector tab for web client.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission2-94-600x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission2-94-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission2-94-450x295.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission2-94-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission2-94.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Upgrade Transmission in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Transmission has a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~transmissionbt\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">stable PPA<\/a> that so far maintains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission-ppa-600x73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"73\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission-ppa-600x73.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission-ppa-450x55.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/transmission-ppa.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> (update manager) and install updates for Transmission to upgrade the software:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/upgrade-transmission-600x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/upgrade-transmission-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/upgrade-transmission-450x333.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/upgrade-transmission.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Restore:<\/h4>\n<p>To restore to the default transmission installed by default, run command to purge the PPA as well as downgrade the software:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:transmissionbt\/ppa<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transmission, the default BitTorrent client, reached the 2.94 release a few days ago. Now you can install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04 easily via PPA. Transmission 2.94 is a bug-fix release with following changes: Fix building against LibreSSL Fix building against mbedTLS Fix torrents ETA calculation Fix cross-compilation issues caused by miniupnpc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[573,1081],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-bittorrent-client","tag-transmission"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","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=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}