Comments on How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx / Debian 5 Lenny With Coloured Interface

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx / Debian 5 Lenny With Coloured Interface rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH access combined with the "screen" program provide you all the tools you need. This howto works for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and for Debian 5 Lenny. The difference is that commands that contain sudo must be executed as root.

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Great .

Works perfectly. Many thanks.

By: Dave Evans
By: Terje

Just too bad it doesn't work on Debian Squeeze :-/

By: xchaotic

Excellent tutorial!

 

By: rikhard

it seems that there is a problem with glibc-2.10.

By: rikhard

i just tried to compile it on a Debian Squeeze/sid box and i get this error when compiling rtorrent: /usr/local/lib/libtorrent.so: undefined reference to `fallocate64' can you help please? thanks

By: Stephen

Excellent tutorial, rtorrent with the rutorrent webui is the best way to go.