How To Install rtorrent on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtorrent on Fedora 34.
What is rtorrent
A BitTorrent client using libtorrent, which on high-bandwidth connections is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client. Using ncurses its ideal for use with screen or dtach. It supports saving of sessions and allows the user to add and remove torrents and scanning of directories for torrent files to seed and/or download.
We can use yum or dnf to install rtorrent on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtorrent.
Install rtorrent on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rtorrent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rtorrent
Install rtorrent on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rtorrent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rtorrent
How To Uninstall rtorrent on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rtorrent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rtorrent
rtorrent Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/rtorrent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/d12c7770e8b5890b6dec6b79448674ee2d4723
/usr/share/doc/rtorrent
/usr/share/doc/rtorrent/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rtorrent/README
/usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc
/usr/share/licenses/rtorrent
/usr/share/licenses/rtorrent/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtorrent on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
