HOWTO: install the latest rtorrent (0.7.1) and libtorrent (0.11.1)

[bruenig]

The repos are a bit behind in their rtorrent packaging. The version there is 0.5.3. So on that premise, I have the following howto for the latest.

1. Alright, first dependencies. The following command should install them all.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libsigc++-2.0-dev pkg-config comerr-dev libcurl3-openssl-dev libidn11-dev libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5 libncurses5-dev

Also make sure you have removed the repository rtorrent and libtorrent, assuming you have them installed.

sudo apt-get remove rtorrent libtorrent7

2. Get and install libtorrent 0.11.1. It installs in /usr/local.

cd
wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.11.1.tar.gz
tar xf libtorrent-0.11.1.tar.gz
cd libtorrent-0.11.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

3. Get and install rtorrent 0.7.1. Also installs in /usr/local.

cd
wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.7.1.tar.gz
tar xf rtorrent-0.7.1.tar.gz
cd rtorrent-0.7.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

4. Assuming you want to remove all the packaging and extracted directories.

cd
rm -rf rtorrent-0.7.1.tar.gz rtorrent-0.7.1 libtorrent-0.11.1.tar.gz libtorrent-0.11.1

And just run "rtorrent" to use it.

EDIT: Apparently some people are having problems when they run rtorrent after the install and it not working. It looks like right after you install it is looking for /usr/bin/rtorrent when you do this instead of /usr/local/bin/rtorrent which is where the new one is installed. It is said below that logging out and logging back in will fix this, and I assume also that just typing /usr/local/bin/rtorrent will work too if you don't want to log out.

Comments are welcome.

[myrek]

Great HOWTO, worked perfectly for me. Thank you very much.

[HwyXingFrog]

Also worked perfectly for me, I probably wouldn't have tried it if I hadn't found this How-To.

Thanks.

Now I just have to figure out how to use it. Any easy way of leaving it running, and still check it whenever you want?

One more step keeping me from upgrading to Vista, and utorrent & wine do work quite nicely.

[karmik]

screen is your friend (man screen )
I use it on my homeserver, works great. Too bad it doesn't support teredo and other niffy things, but eh you can't complain what you don't provide for yourself.

[Koaesica]

Worked great. Thank you!

[kotti]

I had the repository rtorrent installed (never noticed it was that outdated) and tried this guide to update it. First removed the old version using your "sudo apt-get remove rtorrent libtorrent7" line and then installed the newer versions. The install seemed to go without any hitch (or, at least it didn't give out any apparent error messages) but when I type rtorrent into the console I get "bash: /usr/bin/rtorrent: No such file or directory"

Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it?

[lprofil]

@kotti

... but when I type rtorrent into the console I get "bash: /usr/bin/rtorrent: No such file or directory"

Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it?

Log out and in again.
It worked for me.

/lprofil

ps:

(never noticed it was that outdated)

Well, the philosophy of any distributor is to assemble a bunch of packages around the linux-kernel which work flawless together.
Once it (almost) all works, the dirstro is released.

To the time Edgy Eft (01-October-2006) was released, that version of rtorrent (0.5.3 - 23-May-2006 07:21) was quiet up to date.
If you want to garantee that a distro works stable, you usually just upgrade few things and security issues.
Newer versions of the programms are then available in the testing (later stable) releases - currently "Feisty Fawn".

[watson540]

Thank you for bringing it to my attention that rtorrent from repo's are seriously outdated. rtorrent has always been my favorite (azureus bloat can burn along with anyone fool enough to use it). rtorrent does however like to seg fault a lot, namely when i start and stop various files with it or maybe open up 1 too many torrents. I'm interested to see the stability of this new release

[kotti]

@kotti

Log out and in again.
It worked for me.

/lprofil

Ah that did the trick. I was a bit puzzled when everything seemed to go fine with the install and it didn't work. Thanks!

Edit: and of course thanks bruenig for the guide

[lprofil]

If you are fine with the bleeding edge unstable verion of rtorrent here are my adds to bruenigs tutorial.

I describe how you install the current unstable version.
They are 'libtorrent 0.11.2' and 'rtorrent 0.7.2'

I also shrinked the commands to one line each and added the option -y to avoid apt-get
asking you if you want to update, remove or whatever something.


bruenigs modified composition:

#1. Dependcies

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libsigc++-2.0-dev pkg-config comerr-dev libcurl3-openssl-dev libidn11-dev libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5 libncurses5-dev

#2. Remove all old version of rtorrent

sudo apt-get remove -y rtorrent libtorrent*

#3. Get packages and unpack them

cd /opt && wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.11.2.tar.gz && wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.7.2.tar.gz && tar xf libtorrent* && tar xf rtorrent*

#4. Configure / Compile / Install

First for libtorrent:

cd /opt/libtorrent-0.11.2 && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

Then for rtorrent:

cd /opt/rtorrent-0.7.2 && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

#5. Cleaning up

cd /opt && rm -R libtor* && rm -R rtorr*

If rtorrent does not start because you see this error message:

bash: /usr/bin/rtorrent: No such file or directory

logout and login. It should work then


Cheers
/lprofil