Ubuntu Hardy Heron replaces BitTorrent with Transmission
The fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 bundles up many new features and changes, especially when it comes to file exchange. Ubuntu Hardy Heron gives up the problematic BitTorrent and adopts the GTK version of Transmission BitTorrent client as its new file downloader.
Transmission is a feather weight BitTorrent client with a very easy-to use interface for those new to the Bittorrent file transfer/P2P system.
On Debian you can try out transmission-cli which is the lightweight command-line only version of Transmission.
I dclass not want to wait for the final version of Ubuntu 8.04 that comes out in April 2008 to lay my hands on transmission so I settled out to install it on my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10).
To install it from the repository together with all its dependencies do
sudo apt-get install transmission
or
sudo apt-get build-dep transmission
To Compile and install Transmission, download the source codes and
run the following commands:
tar jxvf transmission-1.05.tar.bz2
cd transmission-1.05/
./configure
$make
$make check
$make install
To run Transmission –
Go to a terminal and type
$ transmission
or get it from Applications -> Internet -> Transmission
Whilst waiting for Ubuntu 8.10 and its new packages, Happy Torrenting !!!!
11:06 am on February 18th, 2008
Bittorrent never really worked for me, i hope Transmission is better.
11:07 am on February 18th, 2008
I’ve got Transmission running on my Ubuntu 7.10, Thanks.
6:43 am on August 7th, 2008
Hey just want to give a hand to the new peeps out there. If you have tryed
sudo apt-get transmission
and have gotten an error try the code:
sudo apt-get install transmission
have fun everyone!!!
10:40 am on August 7th, 2008
Hi Dean; thanks for the correction. I didn’t take not of that typo.