How to install qBittorrent on ubuntu 17.04

To install qBittorrent on ubuntu 17.04

qBittorrent is a torrent client, similar to µ Torrent, which was recently ported to the Linux systems. Among others, qBittorrent has built-in search engine for searching in the popular BitTorrent sites, has torrent queueing and prioritizing features, has IP Filtering options, provides a tool for creating torrents and bandwidth limitations. It is available for Linux,Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is very simple to install qBittorrent, and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Installing qBittorrent

Before you begin with the installation process, it is very essential to add the necessary repositories in your system. For that, you need to run the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

 Packages for the stable series of qBittorrent
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~qbittorrent-team/+archive/ubuntu/qbittorrent-stable
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpktdx2sig/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpktdx2sig/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key D35164147CA69FC4: public key " Launchpad PPA for qBittorrent Team"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

After that, you ought to update the newly added repository. Run the following command for the same purpose.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wereturtle/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease           
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                      
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89.2 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease [89.2 kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease [89.2 kB]
Fetched 268 kB in 10s (26.3 kB/s)    
Reading package lists... Done

You can now install the qBittorent package. Trigger its installation by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install qbittorrent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  qbittorrent-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  qbittorrent
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 286 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/3,798 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,683 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package qbittorrent.
(Reading database ... 170598 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../qbittorrent_3.3.16-0ppa1~zesty_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking qbittorrent (3.3.16-0ppa1~zesty) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up qbittorrent (3.3.16-0ppa1~zesty) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+17.04.20170406-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...

Once the installation is complete, you can launch the qBittorrent application from your Ubuntu dash board. Go to the search field and type qbit, the application icons appears on your screen. Click on icon to open it.

Once the application appears on your screen, you can view all the options available in it on the left panel.

With this, the installation of qBittorrent comes to an end. You can now enjoy downloading all your favourite media files with the help of qBittorent.