How To Install transmission-daemon on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-daemon on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is transmission-daemon
transmission-daemon is:
Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). All its incarnations feature a very simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.
This package contains the transmission-daemon. For the associated transmission-remote, see the package transmission-cli.
There are three methods to install transmission-daemon on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install transmission-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install transmission-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install transmission-daemon
Install transmission-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install transmission-daemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install transmission-daemon
Install transmission-daemon 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 transmission-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install transmission-daemon
How To Uninstall transmission-daemon on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the transmission-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove transmission-daemon
Uninstall transmission-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall transmission-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove transmission-daemon
Remove transmission-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove transmission-daemon configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge transmission-daemon
Remove transmission-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove transmission-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge transmission-daemon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-daemon package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
