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When I first came to Linux I adopted Transmission. It seemed less featureful than others but now I like its simplicity, does everything it needs and it is also

When I first came to Linux I adopted Transmission. It seemed less featureful than others but now I like its simplicity, does everything it needs and it is also very reliable. It is not very known but there actually is a transmission-cli for common torrent operations that may come in handy some time.

nness 4y ago
There's also the Transmission Remote GUI, which is a nice GUI for remotely controlling the Transmission daemon, on say, a NAS: https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui It's great for keeping downloads going overnight without having to leave all the power-hungry devices powered on.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
  FWIW, qbittorrent also has a built-in web interface. It's also one of the most feature-rich BitTorrent clients. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent
  - pessimizer 4y ago
    And you can install it with just the web interface as qbittorrent-nox.
p2detar 4y ago
It's a great piece of software. I'm running a web remote v2.92 on an rpi with simple basic auth protection, and it has been working flawlessly for years now.
- xattt 4y ago
  Back in my day, I was running Transmission on a WRT350N router… It was quite an ordeal to set up before there were DD-WRT builds where it was integrated into the build.
- roeles 4y ago
  Ran it on a NSLU2 in the past. Worked great. Brilliant piece of software.
d_tr 4y ago
The cli is also used by Fragments, a Gnome torrent app.
xpressvideoz 4y ago
FYI, transmission-cli is considered deprecated by the Transmission developers. Using both transmission-daemon and transmission-remote is the recommended approach. Actually, transmission-cli uses transmission-daemon internally and they share the same configuration. transmission-cli is still useful for one-off downloads, but I still prefer the recommended way because I'd like to seed older torrents some more time.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  I'm not a user of transmission-cli in general, but transmission-create (part of transmission-cli) is indispensable for me.
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  > transmission-cli is considered deprecated Wah! Bad news! I like to kick off a download from an SSH shell. Now I have to find out what transmission+remote is.
  - daptaq 4y ago
    You could also check out rtorrent: http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/, but I remember reading that development has stalled on that project.
  - aol1306 4y ago
    aria2 can download a torrent from a magnet link given as CLI parameter.
  - 0xC0ncord 4y ago
    I was greatly disappointed too when I found out about transmission-cli's deprecation, but I have since found and replaced all uses of it with stig[1] which, for me, does the same thing and more. [1] https://github.com/rndusr/stig https://github.com/rndusr/stig
  - zaik 4y ago
    You can still do that $ transmission-remote -a one.torrent two.torrent

nness 4y ago

There's also the Transmission Remote GUI, which is a nice GUI for remotely controlling the Transmission daemon, on say, a NAS: https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui It's great for keeping downloads going overnight without having to leave all the power-hungry devices powered on.

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
FWIW, qbittorrent also has a built-in web interface. It's also one of the most feature-rich BitTorrent clients. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent
- pessimizer 4y ago
  And you can install it with just the web interface as qbittorrent-nox.

p2detar 4y ago

It's a great piece of software. I'm running a web remote v2.92 on an rpi with simple basic auth protection, and it has been working flawlessly for years now.

xattt 4y ago
Back in my day, I was running Transmission on a WRT350N router… It was quite an ordeal to set up before there were DD-WRT builds where it was integrated into the build.
roeles 4y ago
Ran it on a NSLU2 in the past. Worked great. Brilliant piece of software.

d_tr 4y ago

The cli is also used by Fragments, a Gnome torrent app.

xpressvideoz 4y ago

FYI, transmission-cli is considered deprecated by the Transmission developers. Using both transmission-daemon and transmission-remote is the recommended approach. Actually, transmission-cli uses transmission-daemon internally and they share the same configuration. transmission-cli is still useful for one-off downloads, but I still prefer the recommended way because I'd like to seed older torrents some more time.

pessimizer 4y ago
I'm not a user of transmission-cli in general, but transmission-create (part of transmission-cli) is indispensable for me.
denton-scratch 4y ago
> transmission-cli is considered deprecated Wah! Bad news! I like to kick off a download from an SSH shell. Now I have to find out what transmission+remote is.
- daptaq 4y ago
  You could also check out rtorrent: http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/, but I remember reading that development has stalled on that project.
- aol1306 4y ago
  aria2 can download a torrent from a magnet link given as CLI parameter.
- 0xC0ncord 4y ago
  I was greatly disappointed too when I found out about transmission-cli's deprecation, but I have since found and replaced all uses of it with stig[1] which, for me, does the same thing and more. [1] https://github.com/rndusr/stig https://github.com/rndusr/stig
- zaik 4y ago
  You can still do that $ transmission-remote -a one.torrent two.torrent