Torrent clients are must-have applications nowadays. There are dozens of clients around, but the average user will look for a simple yet fast and intuitive one.
As a Window user I’m a fan of uTorrent, which is well known by its quality and simplicity. Unfortunately, when it comes to Linux, there’s no uTorrent. After following some discussions between torrent clients for Ubuntu1, I finally decided going to Deluge. It’s said to be fast, simple, good-looking and comes with a web interface.
Those who read previous articles may have noticed I’m building a minimal server system using Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and Deluge characteristics were about the requirements I had in mind, principally the web-interface for controlling it remotely.
So I went straight to the shell and apt-get install deluge… What?? it doesn’t exist?
A little search through packages.ubuntu.com revealed it’s been only available from Ubuntu Jaunty afterwards.
Further looking into Deluge doc, I could find they provide it via a third party repository, at launchpad:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ubuntu <distribution> main universe
working for distribution feisty, gutsy, hardy, intrepid or jaunty. Good! :)
The steps are:
- Add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing <distribution> with hardy or one of the other dists.
- apt-get update. An error will raise saying some “signatures couldn't be verified”. Please copy the key at the end of this line to be used in the next step2
- Add the key to apt with the command:
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <key_here> - apt-get update. Now everything should go fine.
- Now the nice command. apt-get install deluge
You may prefer to install just the daemon and then the web interface. Go for the deluge-core and deluge-web packages.
It’s also a good idea to create a rc startup script so deluge starts automatically at system startup. Luckily someone already thought about that. Give a look at:http://dev.deluge-torrent.info/wiki/UserGuide/InitScript
And that’s it!
1- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=213713
2- https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/InstallingSoftware
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