How To Install bittorrent-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bittorrent-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bittorrent-gui
bittorrent-gui is:
BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It’s extremely easy to use - downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks. Whenever more than one person is downloading at once they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus relieving the central server’s bandwidth burden. Even with many simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server remains quite small, since each new downloader introduces new upload capacity.
This package contains the GUI tools for downloading.
There are three methods to install bittorrent-gui 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 bittorrent-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bittorrent-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bittorrent-gui
Install bittorrent-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bittorrent-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bittorrent-gui
Install bittorrent-gui 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 bittorrent-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bittorrent-gui
How To Uninstall bittorrent-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bittorrent-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bittorrent-gui
Uninstall bittorrent-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bittorrent-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bittorrent-gui
Remove bittorrent-gui Configurations and Data
To remove bittorrent-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bittorrent-gui
Remove bittorrent-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bittorrent-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bittorrent-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bittorrent-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
