How to install Qbit-torrent on Debian 8.3

How to install Qbit-torrent on Debian 8.3

The Qbit-torrent is a fork of bittorrent client application which is the alternative of utorrent. It is a cross-platform client for the Bittorrent protocol. It is written in C++ using Boost and uses Qt framework and libtorrrent-rasterbar library for back-end. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Qbit-torrent on Debian 8.3.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, first add the repo using the nano command.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

The source.list file opens, add these two lines in the file. Save and exit from the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Next update the apt-get source using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease          
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                 
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                      
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]   
Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,776 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,408 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]    
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]  
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                 
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release [148 kB]        
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Fetched 23.4 MB in 4min 36s (84.7 kB/s)                                                         
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with repositories Now install the Qbit-torrent package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install qbittorrent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libqt4-network libtorrent-rasterbar7
Suggested packages:
  libtorrent-rasterbar-dbg qbittorrent-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqt4-network libtorrent-rasterbar7 qbittorrent
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 264 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,293 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up qbittorrent (3.1.10-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

Once the package is installed, click on the activities window and type the Qbit-torrent package name. Run the application by clicking on the icon.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Qbit-torrent is mainly developed to be small, powerful and visually attractive and also contains live streaming option to play video files.