How To Install bittornado on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bittornado
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bittornado
bittornado is:
BitTornado is a bittorrent client built on the original BitTorrent client from BitTorrent Inc. This client features a console and curses mode, lots of features, and is one of the original bittorrent clients created.
Features include:
- upload/download speed limitation
- prioritised downloading when downloading batches (several files)
- detailed information about connections to other peers
- encryption (PE/MSE) support (with the recommended python-crypto)
- console mode for running from scripts
- curses mode for running interactively
- tracker for the distribution of files
This package contains the console and curses interfaces, and a bittorrent tracker, install the package bittornado-gui to get the GUI components. See the bittorrent package for a description of what bittorrent is.
There are three methods to install bittornado
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bittornado Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bittornado
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bittornado
Install bittornado Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bittornado
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bittornado
Install bittornado Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bittornado
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bittornado
How To Uninstall bittornado on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bittornado
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bittornado
Uninstall bittornado And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bittornado
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bittornado
Remove bittornado Configurations and Data
To remove bittornado
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bittornado
Remove bittornado configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bittornado
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bittornado
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bittornado
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.