HOWTO: Installing KTorrent – KDE-based torrent client

[SGC]

KTorrent is a new bittorrent client for KDE. It's has the following feature:
- Downloads torrent files
- Upload speed capping,
- Web-based bittorent search engine
- Support for UDP Trackers.

Screenshots of the program (http://ktorrent.pwsp.net/pics.php)

Install checkinstall:
sudo apt-get install checkinstall

Download the source package:
wget http://ktorrent.pwsp.net/downloads/ktorrent-1.0.tar.gz

Extract the archive:
tar -xvzf ktorrent-1.0.tar.gz

Navigate to the extracted folder:
cd ktorrent-1.0

Configure the package, using this command:
./configure

Or this (for faster compilation):
./configure --enable-final

Note: if you does not compile a KDE based package before, you will get an error message complaining about missing KDE/QT headers or libraries files. To fix this problem, install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev kdelibs4-dev

Compile the package:
make

Install the package:
sudo checkinstall -D make install

You will find the program in the following place:
Kmenu > Internet > Bittorent Client (KTorrent)

[Flawed]

Hi, sounds good, but I can't "make" your source. Here's the error message I get:

tomake-1.9 --gnu
cd . && perl admin/am_edit
Can't open perl script "admin/am_edit": No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1

I can't find a file called "am_edit" anywhere.

[8FootSativa]

Thanks for the guide. I just wish it was stable on my system.

[dabear]

I haven't tried installing it yet, but why "make install"? You won't get a .deb package this way, and removing ktorrent will mos likely be a pain in the ***. Install checkinstall and do a "make checkinstall" instead of "make install"

[ltmon]

Also I think that in Kubuntu you should configure using:

> ./configure --prefix=/usr

This ensures that ktorrent is installed alongside all the other kde apps.

When using checkinstall, send it the -D flag for "Debian".

> sudo checkinstall -D make install

Cheers,

L.

[SGC]

I updated the HOWTO to includes checkinstall, Thank you for suggesting that.

[SGC]

Updated for the latest version

[rubengs]

Right now there are new repos, look (from ktorrent page):

http://ktorrent.pwsp.net/downloads.php

"Ubuntu :

Add "deb http://dinton.no-ip.org/ kubuntu main" and "deb-src http://dinton.no-ip.org/ kubuntu main" to the repo list (with synaptic or manually in /etc/apt/sources.list)

Then, "apt-get update" to get the list of all packages available for all repos, and "apt-get install ktorrent" to install the application. (Thanks to Tonio)"

[nickless]

How good is ktorrent? Compared to Azureus?

[sk545]

umm, you can't really compare any client to Azureus. Azureus is too good, well, if you're looking for tons of options that is.

[nickless]

Hrm well azureus uses java and is said to slow everything down a lot. I don't need many options, I need a fast an clean torrent program :) I'll see what ktorrent has to offer me.

[Gobd]

How about a guide for installing the latest version of Ktorrent (2.0b1) which looks very nice. I followed this guide and applied it to the new version and it failed with a few errors messages I don't understand.

[psychicdragon]

How about a guide for installing the latest version of Ktorrent (2.0b1) which looks very nice. I followed this guide and applied it to the new version and it failed with a few errors messages I don't understand.
I posted a KTorrent 2.0beta1 package I built here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=188530

[lenninct]

how do i make ktorrent my prmary application for torrents?
everytime i try to download a file i have to save the torrent and then open it up from ktorrent.