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
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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.
transmission-cli - A collection of cli tools for transmission.
transmission-gtk - A BitTorrent Client using a GTK interface.
transmission-qt - A BitTorrent Client using a QT interface.
transmission-remote-cli - A BitTorrent Client using a curses interface for accessing the daemon.
transmission-daemon - A BitTorrent daemon using a web interface.
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
- "download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads",
- the location of the finished downloads
- "incomplete-dir": "/root/Downloads",
- the location of the incomplete 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
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
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