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How to install and use bit torrent clients in fedora? its as simple as that: You need to install ‘transmission’ package to get bit torrent client for fedora.
Once you installed it, bit torrent client is ready to use for torrent action. You can either use ‘transmission” cli or GUI mode.
root@localhost ]# yum install transmission*
[root@localhost ]# rpm -qa |grep -i transmiss
transmission-2.80-2.fc19.x86_64
transmission-cli-2.80-2.fc19.x86_64
transmission-common-2.77-3.fc19.x86_64
transmission-gtk-2.77-3.fc19.x86_64
[root@localhost ]#
‘transmission-cli-2.80-2.fc19.x86_64’ provides ‘cli’ version of torrent client.
[root@localhost ]# rpm -ql transmission-cli-2.80-2.fc19.x86_64
/usr/bin/transmission-cli
/usr/share/man/man1/transmission-cli.1.gz
[root@localhost ]#
[root@localhost ]# transmission-cli –help
transmission-cli 2.80 (14103)
A fast and easy BitTorrent client
Usage: transmission-cli [options]
Options:
-h –help Display this help page and exit
-b –blocklist Enable peer blocklists
-B –no-blocklist Disable peer blocklists
-d –downlimit
-D –no-downlimit Don’t limit the download speed
-er –encryption-required Encrypt all peer connections
-ep –encryption-preferred Prefer encrypted peer connections
-et –encryption-tolerated Prefer unencrypted peer connections
-f –finish