So say if you want to select a torrent from the Downloads directory, enter Downloads, and DON’T press Enter. By default, the working directory of this program is the home directory. Now after this ‘load.normal>’ part, enter the location, or the URL of the file. Both have the same method.Īfter starting rTorrent, press Enter, and you’ll get this: After pressing Enter. First, you can use a downloaded torrent file or the URL of the torrent file. RTorrent will cover up the whole terminal screen. Just fire up a terminal, and write: rtorrent So, we’ll be showing some of the everyday actions that you’ll require to manage your torrents. RTorrent is a great program, especially if you know the keyboard commands and shortcuts. For more information on installation, visit this site. configure make sudo make installĪnd that’s it. Terminal will complete rest of the name.). (Press the tab key after writing rtorrent. tar.gz package from here.Īfter downloading the package, run the following commands (assuming it’s in the Downloads directory): cd Downloads/ tar -xzvf rtorrent*.tar.gz cd rtorrent
For Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any derivatives, type: sudo apt-get install rtorrent Installation on Linux Mintįor other distributions, you can either search in your distribution’s repositories or download the. RTorrent is available in most major distributions’ repositories. These can be accessed by simply selecting a torrent and pressing the Right Arrow key. Options are available to view the peer list, file list, tracker list, transfer list and the chunks seen. Running torrent.įurther, users can check information like source, filename, size, active time, number of files, memory usage and even details like the number of chunks.
Information such as the size of the files, the amount downloaded, the upload/download speed, remaining time and a few more details are displayed.
Users can view the details of the torrents opened in rTorrent similar to any GUI torrent client.