How To Install qbittorrent on Fedora 34

qbittorrent is A Bittorrent Client

Introduction

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

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qbittorrent.

Install qbittorrent 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 qbittorrent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qbittorrent

Install qbittorrent 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 qbittorrent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qbittorrent

How To Uninstall qbittorrent on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qbittorrent

qbittorrent Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qbittorrent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/0c97a4b824b9f5215c13f74605a62401398c58
/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/bin/qbittorrent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/289988557cd1c5a6631daf6e6922e61f7fc3c9
/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

References

Summary

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