Deluge is a popular multi-platform bittorrent client often used to provide torrenting / seedbox functionality on Linux servers. Like rTorrent, deluge uses libtorrent as its backend. Supported by daemon-service, awesome interface, and great plugin support, Deluge surpass Transmission and rTorrent for functionality.
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 Deluge bittorrent client on an Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver server.
Install Deluge on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Deluge on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Use the following command to install Deluge daemon and Deluge Web interface on Ubuntu 18.04 server:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deluge-team/ppa sudo apt install deluged deluge-webui
Then create the Deluge user and group:
sudo adduser --system --group deluge sudo gpasswd -a wpcademy deluge
Step 3. Create Systemd Service.
Create a systemd service file for deluge with your favourite text editor such as nano:
nano /etc/systemd/system/deluged.service
Add following lines:
[Unit] Description=Deluge Bittorrent Client Daemon After=network-online.target [Service] Type=simple User=deluge Group=deluge UMask=007 ExecStart=/usr/bin/deluged -d Restart=on-failure # Configures the time to wait before service is stopped forcefully. TimeoutStopSec=300 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now start deluge deamon with the following command:
systemctl start deluged systemctl enable deluged
Next, we create a systemd service file for deluge web:
nano /etc/systemd/system/deluge-web.service
Add following lines:
[Unit] Description=Deluge Bittorrent Client Web Interface After=network-online.target [Service] Type=simple User=deluge Group=deluge UMask=027 ExecStart=/usr/bin/deluge-web Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Save and close the file also start and enable deluge-web:
systemctl start deluge-web systemctl enable deluge-web
Step 4. Accessing Deluge.
Deluge will be available on HTTP port 8112 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com:8112 or http://server-ip:8112. The default password for deluge is deluge, better change it when you are first to login.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Deluge. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Deluge bittorrent client on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Deluge web site.