Rtorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++ based on the LibTorrent libraries for Unix, Rtorrent is very minimal, takes very less system resource. On high-bandwidth connections, It claims to be able to seed at three times the speed of the official BitTorrent client. Rtorrent is a package available for various Linux distribution. Rutorrent is a third party Web GUI for Rtorrent that is used widely by headless server that seed Linux distributions, Rutorrent makes it easier to use Rtorrent and gives it a front-end GUI to operate. We will be installing Rutorrent using a simple ‘bash’ script created by [Kerwood](https://github.com/Kerwood). The ‘bash’ script will download dependencies required to compile and install Rtorrent and LibTorrent.
Dependencies the bash file will install
- openssl
- subversion
- git
- apache2
- apache2-utils
- build-essential
- libsigc++-2.0-dev
- libcurl4-openssl-dev
- automake libtool
- libcppunit-dev
- libncurses5-dev
- libapache2-mod-scgi
- php5
- php5-curl
- php5-cli
- libapache2-mod-php5
- screen
- unrar-free
- unzip
Installing
Installing wget if you don’t have it already installed.
sudo apt-get install wgetDownloading the latest version of the shell file.
wget https://raw.github.com/Kerwood/rtorrent.auto.install/master/rtorrent.auto.install-NEWEST-VERSIONMake the file executable.
chmod +x rtorrent.auto.install-NEWEST-VERSIONRun the script
sudo ./rtorrent.auto.install-NEWEST-VERSIONOnce the bash script compiles and installs Rutorrent it would ask you to set a username and password for the Rutorrent Web GUI. After you have chosen you username and password for Rutorrent Web GUI, It would ask you to choose plugins from a list of plugins
- Now Apache2 would restart.
You can access Rutorrent by visiting this link.
Now you have Rutorrent installed on your Debian system.