need help updating my Transmission bittorrent client from 1.06

[EvilBear]

Hi. I need help updating my Transmission bittorrent client from 1.06 to something newer. Anyone there that can walk me through it? I know a little of cli commands.

[Partyboi2]

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

[EvilBear]

Hardy 8.04

[Partyboi2]

One option is to use Transmission 1.22 which is in the backports repository for hardy.
Go to Software Sources (System>Admin>Software Sources) and on the update tab enable backports, then close Software Sources and update to 1.22

Another option is for transmission 1.42 is to add the 3rd party repo
Add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu hardy main to your 3rd party list in Software Sources or by the terminal

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources/list
add the above repos, then save and back in the terminal add the key

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 976b5901365c5ca1
gpg --export --armor 976b5901365c5ca1 | sudo apt-key add -
Then update

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[EvilBear]

Up graded it...now trying to get it to work. :)

[EvilBear]

Thank you, it worked. Now to see if it fixes my closed port problem. Any setting i should change from default for this upgraded version?

[Partyboi2]

I am not sure, should work fine with default settings though.

[EvilBear]

Yep, ort problem seems fixed. used to dwnld speeds never more that 100kbs, easily hitting over 300kbs on average. Thank you very much. People like you are why people like my started using computers again, after swearing off the things because of certain OS's that were not nice to us :)

[Partyboi2]

Happy to help, all the best :)