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Installing Transmission daemon on Ubuntu

December 9th, 2008 | Linux

I wanted to install the transmission torrent daemon on my new HTPC server so I can upload a torrent and go to sleep without having to leave my laptop on. Or thinking about starting transmission when my computer (re)boots. So here's how I installed transmission.

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  1. aptitude install transmission
  2. wget http://www.vanutsteen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/transmission-daemon -O /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
  3. chmod +x /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
  4. adduser --home /dev/null --shell /bin/false --no-create-home --disabled-login transmission
  5. mkdir /etc/transmission
  6. chown transmission:transmission -R /etc/transmission
  7. update-rc.d transmission-daemon defaults

And then make sure your "/etc/default/transmission-daemon" looks something like:

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  1. TRANSMISSION_HOME=/etc/transmission
  2.  
  3. # The folder where Transmission stores downloads
  4. TORRENTFOLDER=/media/sda11/downloads
  5.  
  6. # The port Transmission uses to connect to other peers
  7. PORT=54318
  8.  
  9. # The name of the user that should run Transmission
  10. USERNAME=transmission
  11.  
  12. # Login credentials for the Web- and the RPC-interface
  13. REMOTE_USER=admin
  14. REMOTE_PASS=password

You can not visit the daemon on: http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/

Here's a nice screenshot:

3 comments ↓

#1 daniel on 02.05.09 at 11:00

a faster way would be to apt-get install clutch

#2 Transmission daemon on Ubuntu (part 2) — vanutsteen.nl => nerds only on 02.23.09 at 20:13

[...] while ago I blogged about installing the transmision bittorent client on ubuntu 8.10. Back then, in the days, you had to install transmission and install your own daemon script. But as [...]

#3 Marco on 07.23.09 at 18:27

Hi how can I limit upload speed?

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