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Originally taken from DistroTube's instructions on installation:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n93ioqHf-U
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Installing rtorrent, a simple terminal based torrenting client on Linux is relatively easy, install the binary from whichever main repository you utilize, in the case of Arch based distributions:
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sudo pacman -S rtorrent
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Within the /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/examples directory you will find an example config/rc file:
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/usr/share/doc/rtorrent/examples/rtorrent.rc.gz
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Interestingly, DT uses vim to copy it and unzip the file using vim alone (which at the time of this writing, long after having installed rtorrent, I was unaware of):
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sudo nvim /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/examples/rtorrent.rc.gz
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And then write it to the $HOME directory using vim's NORMAL mode:
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:w /home/username/.rtorrent.rc (note the . in .rtorrent.rc)
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Now let's simply change the ownership to our user:
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sudo chown username:username .rtorrent.rc
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And now let's edit the following lines within the rc file:
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At the line:
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#default.directory.set = ./
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Uncomment it and reset it to Downloads:
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default.directory.set = ./Downloads
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We will also need a session directory to save our progress should we stop the client at any time. Simply uncomment the following line:
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#session.path.set = ./session
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And be sure to make that directory in your $HOME directory:
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mdkir ~/session
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And also uncomment the following line, which will have rtorrent "watch" for .torrent files to start torrenting:
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#schedule2 = watch_directory,5,5,load.start=./watch/*.torrent
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And simply create such a directory as well:
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mkdir ~/watch
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And that's it. now simply place an .torrent files into watch and then open up rotorrent and you are ready to go!
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