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How to install qBittorrent on Debian 9.0

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To install qBittorrent on Debian 9.0

qBittorrent is an open-source and cross-platform BitTorrent client released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). Written using C++, qBittorrent also uses the Qt framework, version 4 or 5. Also, it uses lintorrent-rasterbar library for the torrent back-end funtions. Since its optional search engine is built based on Python language, the systems that doesn' t have Python can not use the search engine.

Installing qBittorrent

Before starting the installation, make sure you add the needed repo. For that you need to open the sources.list configuration file. Open the file by running the following command. 

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

Once the file is open, add the following lines to its end. Save it and exit from the file.

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

Once the repo is added, update the apt sources.list file as follows. 

root@linuxhelppp:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [62.9 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]
Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release        
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [63.8 kB]   
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources [87.7 kB]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main amd64 Packages [163 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [75.0 kB]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages [148 kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en [74.7 kB]
Fetched 767 kB in 5s (129 kB/s)           
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install the qBittorrent package. Run the following command for the same purpose. 

root@linuxhelppp:~# apt-get install qbittorrent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libboost-chrono1.62.0 libboost-random1.62.0 libtorrent-rasterbar9
Suggested packages:
  libtorrent-rasterbar-dbg qbittorrent-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libboost-chrono1.62.0 libboost-random1.62.0 libtorrent-rasterbar9 qbittorrent
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,934 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up qbittorrent (3.3.7-3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ...

Once installed the package, then click activities and type the package name.

qbittorrent

With this, the installation of qBittorrent is complete.

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

Which operating systems are currently supported by qBittorrent?

A

qBittorrent code compiles on Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, BSD, OS X, ...) and Windows.
Windows is officially supported as of qBittorrent 2.2.9.

Q

suggest me some best torrent app for Mac?

A

Try the following apps Folx, uTorrent App, Transmission App, Xtorrent P2P App, Vuze, Deluge.

Q

Is qBittorrent available on my GNU/Linux distribution?

A

qBittorrent is included in the official repositories of several major GNU/Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, Arch Linux, …).
Binary distributions are usually available to the other distros through 3rd party repositories.
If not, please file a request at your GNU/Linux distribution's issue tracker.

Q

Why use qBittorrent instead of another client?

A

A lot of other BitTorrent clients exist but qBittorrent has several advantages:

It is Open-source/Free/Libre Software (you can see the code and see what qBittorrent is doing).
It is the closest open-source equivalent to the extremely popular (and Windows only) BitTorrent client: µTorrent.
Its development team is very active and friendly.

Q

What do the different colors mean?

A

qBittorrent uses 2 sets of colors depending if you're using a dark theme or not.
Here is the list (github doesn't allow changing the text color):

Light theme:

Forest Green (rgb(34, 139, 34)) for torrents in downloading, forced downloading or downloading metadata status
Black for torrents in allocating or stalled(up and down) status
Royal Blue (rgb(65, 105, 225)) for torrents in uploading or forced uploading status
Salmon (rgb(250, 128, 114)) for torrents in paused(downloading) status

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