How To Install rtorrent on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtorrent
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtorrent.
Install rtorrent on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rtorrent
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rtorrent on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rtorrent
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rtorrent on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rtorrent
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtorrent
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.