Ubuntu Hardy Heron replaces BitTorrent with Transmission
- Fri Feb 15, 2008
- By Martin Kaba
- Filed under: Ubuntu
- 2 Comments
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The fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 bundles up many new features and changes, especially when it comes to file exchange. Ubuntu Hardy Heron gives up the problematic BitTorrent and adopts the GTK version of Transmission BitTorrent client as its new file downloader.
Transmission is a feather weight BitTorrent client with a very easy-to use interface for those new to the Bittorrent file transfer/P2P system.
On Debian you can try out transmission-cli which is the lightweight command-line only version of Transmission.
I did not want to wait for the final version of Ubuntu 8.04 that comes out in April 2008 to lay my hands on transmission so I settled out to install it on my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10).
To install it from the repository together with all its dependencies do
sudo apt-get transmission
or
sudo apt-get build-dep transmission
To Compile and install Transmission, download the source codes and
run the following commands:
tar jxvf transmission-1.05.tar.bz2
cd transmission-1.05/
./configure
$make
$make check
$make install
To run Transmission -
Go to a terminal and type
$ transmission
or get it from Applications -> Internet -> Transmission
Whilst waiting for Ubuntu 8.10 and its new packages, Happy Torrenting !!!!
11:06 am on February 18th, 2008
Bittorrent never really worked for me, i hope Transmission is better.
11:07 am on February 18th, 2008
I’ve got Transmission running on my Ubuntu 7.10, Thanks.