How To Install transmission on Fedora 34

transmission is A lightweight GTK+ BitTorrent client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission on Fedora 34.

What is transmission

Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

We can use yum or dnf to install transmission on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install transmission.

Install transmission 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 transmission using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install transmission

Install transmission 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 transmission using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install transmission

How To Uninstall transmission on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the transmission package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove transmission

transmission Package Contents on Fedora 34

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.