{"id":8920,"date":"2019-05-07T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:01:23","slug":"qbittorrent-4-1-6-released-install-it-in-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/qbittorrent-4-1-6-released-install-it-in-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"qBittorrent 4.1.6 Released! How to Install it 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 torrent client 4.1.6 was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qbittorrent.org\/news.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">qBittorrent<\/a> 4.1.6 is a bug-fix release with following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Force recheck multiple torrents one by one in all possible cases.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t query Google for tracker favicons, for privacy reasons <\/li>\n<li>Work around the crash occurred in QTimer.<\/li>\n<li>Increase the .torrent file download size limit to 100 MiB<\/li>\n<li>Disable downloading tracker favicons by default. Works around reported crashes in Linux.<\/li>\n<li>WEBUI improvements and fixes.<\/li>\n<li>SEARCH: Make num enter key work the same as return in searchjobwidget<\/li>\n<li>Make window title bar icon work in Wayland<\/li>\n<li>Update appdata.xml file for Linux<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install qBittorrent 4.1.6 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 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04.<\/p>\n<p>1. To add the PPA, open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by 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 user password (no asterisk 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<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove qBittorrent PPA, go to <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b>, or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:qbittorrent-team\/qbittorrent-stable<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the bittorrent client, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove qbittorrent<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>qBittorrent torrent client 4.1.6 was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04. qBittorrent 4.1.6 is a bug-fix release with following changes: Force recheck multiple torrents one by one in all possible cases. Don&#8217;t query Google for tracker favicons, for privacy reasons Work [&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":[702],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-qbittorrent"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","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=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}