How To Install rtorrent on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtorrent on CentOS 8.
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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtorrent.
Install rtorrent 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 rtorrent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rtorrent
Install rtorrent 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 rtorrent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rtorrent
How To Uninstall rtorrent on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rtorrent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rtorrent
rtorrent Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/rtorrent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/763d9991382818685fb645d51e9ff6aef5ca99
/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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.