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About

Transmission is a light-weight and cross-platform BitTorrent client with full encryption, DHT, µTP, PEX and Magnet Link support. It is the default BitTorrent client for DebianGnome.

Installation

if you have installed your DebianGnome desktop from tasksel then transmission-gtk should be installed by default, but it is possible to use one more of the following packages, depending on your requirements:

Configuration

The transmission-gtk and transmission-qt clients can be configured via the application or via ~/.config/transmission/settings.json.
The transmission-daemon can be configured by editing /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json.

Configuration settings.json

Changes made manually to the file /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json while the daemon is running will be silently overwritten on transmission exit. You need to stop it first, make changes and start it again.

service transmission-daemon stop
mcedit mcedit /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
service transmission-daemon start

The setting.json file is quite self explanatory but the common things that might need editing are:
(Full explanation here https://github.com/transmission/transmission/wiki/Editing-Configuration-Files):

  • "download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads": the location of the finished downloads
  • "rpc-password": "*(Hh09ajdf-9djfd89ash7a8ggG&*g98h8009hj90": the password for the web interface, replace the hash with a plain text password and it will be hashed on reload

  • "rpc-username": "transmission": user name for web interface
  • "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1": IP's allowed to access the daemon, something like "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*", is the formatting for the IP addresses

Change default user on daemon

In case you want to set a different user than the default debian-transmission user, you need to create a configuration file to overwrite default settings.

# systemctl edit transmission-daemon.service

Then add these lines:

[Service]
User=USER

Where "USER" is the name of the user you want to run the daemon as.

Connecting to daemon

Web Interface

Once the daemon is running, it can be accessed from your web browser by pointing it at http://127.0.0.1:9091 or the address for your server (once you have whitelisted the IP range).

curses cli tool

The curses interface can be accessed via the terminal using:

# transmission-remote-cli -c username:password@127.0.0.1

replacing username:password and IP address with your settings.

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