How To Install qbittorrent on CentOS 8

qbittorrent is A Bittorrent Client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qbittorrent on CentOS 8.

What is qbittorrent

A Bittorrent client using rb_libtorrent and a Qt4 Graphical User Interface. It aims to be as fast as possible and to provide multi-OS, unicode support.

We can use yum or dnf to install qbittorrent on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qbittorrent.

Install qbittorrent on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install qbittorrent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qbittorrent

Install qbittorrent on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install qbittorrent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qbittorrent

How To Uninstall qbittorrent on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove qbittorrent

qbittorrent Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/qbittorrent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/d29e017fdf1c817b9e1a417c4494a1c6727591
/usr/share/applications/org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qbittorrent
/usr/share/doc/qbittorrent/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/qbittorrent/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/qbittorrent/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/qbittorrent/README.md
/usr/share/doc/qbittorrent/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/36x36/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/36x36/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/72x72/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/72x72/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/qbittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/status/qbittorrent-tray.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/qbittorrent-tray-dark.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/qbittorrent-tray-light.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/qbittorrent-tray.svg
/usr/share/licenses/qbittorrent
/usr/share/licenses/qbittorrent/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/qbittorrent.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/qbittorrent.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qbittorrent on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.