qBittorrent is a torrent client, similar to µTorrent, which was recently ported to the Linux systems. Among others, qBittorrent has built-in search engine for searching in the popular BitTorrent sites, has torrent queueing and prioritizing features, has IP Filtering options, provides a tool for creating torrents and bandwidth limitations. It is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation qBitTorrent on a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.
Install qBitTorrent on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing qBittorrent on Ubuntu 18.04.
To get the most recent qBittorrent, run command to add the PPA repository:
add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable apt-get update apt-get install qbittorrent
Now that qBitorrent has been installed, open Linux mint menu and type qbittorrent on a menu.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed qBitTorrent. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing qBitTorrent bitTorrent client in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official qBitTorrent web site.