{"id":7729,"date":"2018-05-07T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2018-05-28T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T16:06:37","slug":"install-qbittorrent-4-1-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/install-qbittorrent-4-1-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install qBittorrent 4.1 in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/qbittorrent-icon245.png\" alt=\"qBittorrent\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>qBittorrent reached the new major 4.1.0 release a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p>qBittorrent 4.1.0 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add &#8220;Coalesce reads &#038; writes&#8221; checkbox in advanced options<\/li>\n<li>Smart Filter for RSS<\/li>\n<li>Possibility to configure at which speed a torrent is considered slow.<\/li>\n<li>When creating a torrent you can choose to preserve the file order<\/li>\n<li>A new, redesigned and refactored WebAPI<\/li>\n<li>Switch built-in Web UI html to HTML5<\/li>\n<li>Allow to disable Stacktrace support<\/li>\n<li>Various other Web UI improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Various code optimizations and bug-fixes. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qbittorrent.org\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">NEWS page<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-410-600x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-410-600x394.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-410-450x296.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-410-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-410.jpg 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install qBittorrent 4.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~qbittorrent-team\/+archive\/ubuntu\/qbittorrent-stable\" target=\"_blank\">official qBittorrent PPA<\/a> contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>1. To add the PPA, open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or searching &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from app launcher. When it opens, run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team\/qbittorrent-stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) 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\/qbittorrent-ppa-bionic-600x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"158\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-ppa-bionic-600x158.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-ppa-bionic-450x118.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-ppa-bionic-768x202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qbittorrent-ppa-bionic.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. To upgrade from a previous release, launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> and you&#8217;ll see qBittorrent available for upgrade after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade qBittorrent\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or run commands below to install \/upgrade it from terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install qbittorrent<\/pre>\n<p>3. (Optional) To uninstall the 4.1 release and revert to the stock version of qBittorrent in Ubuntu repository, do:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:qbittorrent-team\/qbittorrent-stable<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>qBittorrent reached the new major 4.1.0 release a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04. qBittorrent 4.1.0 release highlights: Add &#8220;Coalesce reads &#038; writes&#8221; checkbox in advanced options Smart Filter for RSS Possibility to configure at which speed a torrent is considered slow. When creating a torrent [&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":[327,573,702],"class_list":["post-7729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-bittorrent","tag-bittorrent-client","tag-qbittorrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729","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=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}