About Transmission

Transmission is a light-weighted 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

Currently transmission overwrites the settings.json configuration file on exit. The daemon can be instructed to reload the config with a SIGHUP, or # service transmission-daemon reload Otherwise changes made manually to the file while the daemon is running will be silently overwritten on exit.

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

The setting.json file is quite self explanatory but the common things that might need editing are

A more full description of the setting can be found at transmission wiki

Connecting to daemon

Web Interface

Once the daemon is running, it can be access from your ?WebBrowser 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

External Links

Transmissionbt.com

Transmission wiki

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