Latest rtorrent

Using DebianArmEtch I was able to successfully build the necessary Optware IPK packages needed to run the lastest version of rtorrent. You may want to do this due to fact the Debian version being old and out of date (etch 0.6.4, optware 0.7.9).

Brian Zhou has an un-official feed located at http://www.mediamax.com/bzhou/Hosted/optware/cs04q3armel. This means you dont have to build them yourself.

• To get and install IPKG onto Debian

# wget http://www.mediamax.com/bzhou/Hosted/optware/cs04q3armel/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-9_arm.ipk
# tar -xOvzf ipkg-opt_*_arm.ipk ./data.tar.gz | tar -C / -xzvf -

• Edit /opt/etc/ipkg.conf to point to the feed location, you can use any editor you like, or use the sed scripts below

sed -i -e '/^dest root/i src local http://www.mediamax.com/bzhou/Hosted/optware/cs04q3armel' /opt/etc/ipkg.conf

• Then execute

# /opt/bin/ipkg update
# /opt/bin/ipkg install rtorrent

This will update the package feeds, and then install rtorrent and the neccessary dependancies.

Due to the packages being optware packages, they are all located in /opt/bin, and configs in /opt/etc.

You then need to create a .rtorrent.rc config file in your home directory.

You should then be able to use the latest Optware rtorrent in Debian

To update and upgade later on:

# /opt/bin/ipkg update
# /opt/bin/ipkg upgrade

Will update the package feed, and download any newer packages

nTorrent

If you would like to use a remote GUI, you can almost follow RtorrentWithRemoteGUI

However, you can install lighttpd from the Debian repositories - apt-get install lighttpd

This means it will configure it for debian, run it on startup and such

You can then follow the RtorrentWithRemoteGUI guide to edit your /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and your rtorrent conf

rtorrent can be run by using /opt/bin/rtorrent

• Config nTorrent to connect to
  • IP address of your rtorrent machine
  • lighttpd port (port 80 by default) - Doesnt need entering
  • RPC mount point /RPC2

Debian packages

Another way is InstallRtorrentOnDebain