rTorrent Is A Great Terminal Based BitTorrent Client

rTorrent is a terminal-based bitTorrent client that is simple to configure and use. It is free and open source software and should be in every Linux distribution's repos. Want a sexier rTorrent? Try out rtorrent-ps!

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[KeepItTechie]

Thanks DT, I started using rtorrent back in 2009. Great program and simple to use. I pair rtorrent with screen.

[jeetadityachatterjee]

Can I just say your thumbnail game is really good!
Like how do you make a torrent client good looking? Yet you manage!

[Arkayaplays]

i was waiting for this video for a very long time

[Yakushii]

I think the downside for me is that I use private trackers that require you to seed the torrent after finishing it. It's a good tradeoff for access to curated, no-bullshit torrents.


If I used a terminal-based client, I think it would be a hassle to reload all the torrents every time the terminal (or computer) needs to shut down for whatever reason.


If there are any good term-based clients that work well under such circumstances, I'm all ears.

[Alex-scrc]

Thrilling how you suddenly start talking :D

[jakemoody]

Transmission is my fav. Simple enough.

[yuvaldahan]

This is the least XDG compliant program I've ever seen

[oglothenerd]

13:08 If you are under the age of 10, please cover your ears when he is about to say this.

[urugulu]

id use a ~ in the paths in that config. all those ./ things for referencing the home directory look quite dodgyass to me

[fpgamemearray]

i generally use aria2 as a torrent and regular download client. you can run it as a daemon and it has multiple webuis for remote management. two birds with one stone i guess

[catoflado]

I was about to use this. I didnt know Transmission was a bit torrent client. Im going to use that instead then, thanks!

[pasci_lei]

Sometimes I ask myself why anyone would need a DE or WM at all. You can do anything in the command line interface.

[joetheman]

KDE desktops will have Ktorrent which is excellent.That's one nice thing about KDE is that using KDE software like ktorrent, KDE Partition Manager, kmenuedit, kfind ect.. gives you an actual polished and integrated operating system of unified tools (without the high memory usage and bloat of gnome) yet if one of the tools is not enough for you then you can remove it and install something else. That's one thing I don't like about lesser desktop environments is that it just feels all cobbled together. I'd prefer to use a window manager and lighter tools if I want to cobble together my own system.

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Derek. Yes, I usually just use Transmission. It's simple and clean. There are many options but I never use them.

[Jess-hjvu]

Awesome, I've been using rtorrent for quite awhile and love it. (:

[SlideRSB]

4:55 Will that path you set be okay if you launched rtorrent while not presently in your home directory? Shouldn't you have specified the path to be $HOME/Downloads rather than ./Downloads?

[veryown]

I'm fine with transmission-cli, it has a web interface that can be accessed at localhost:9091, to watch torrents state just do watch -n1 transmission-remote -l

[bahathir_]

rtorrent was my favorite torrent client, especially when combined with terminal multiplexer such as GNU Screen or tmux, where I able to runs the rtorrent session and detach froem terminal and exit or logout.


Today, I am using transmission, with transmission-remote, which I find it much simpler and command line friendly.

[coder]

Great video. Just wanted to point out you might also wanted to turn on encryption for you and others with RTorrent.

[sentinel]

Isn't it tiring zooming in every time?