Rutorrent on Debian

Rtorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++ based on the LibTorrent libraries for Unix. Rtorrent is very minimal and takes very few system resources. 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 distributions. Rutorrent is a third-party Web GUI for Rtorrent used widely by headless servers that seed Linux distributions. Rutorrent makes it easier to use Rtorrent and gives it a front-end GUI to operate. We will install Rutorrent using a simple ‘bash’ script from Kerwood. The ‘bash’ script will download the 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 wget

Downloading the latest version of the shell file.

wget https://raw.github.com/Kerwood/rtorrent.auto.install/master/rtorrent.auto.install-NEWEST-VERSION

Make the file executable.

chmod +x rtorrent.auto.install-NEWEST-VERSION

Run the script

sudo ./rtorrent.auto.install-NEWEST-VERSION

Once 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 your username and password for Rutorrent Web GUI, It will 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.