Transmission 1.83
Transmission guide for easy torrent downloads
I have been trying the lastest release of the Transmission BitTorrent client. In this article I will show the specifications of Transmission for Mac OS X users and Ubuntu 9.10 users.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Ubuntu 9.10 is originally coming with Transmission 1.75 as a BitTorrent client, If you want to use the latest Transmission, I will show you how to install Transmission 1.83 in terminal and some show some of the features.
Installation
Please open your terminal and copy paste the code below:
First we need to get rid of the old Transmission,
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sudo apt-get remove transmission transmission-daemon \ transmission-common transmission-gtk transmission-cli transmission-qt |
Don’t care if you have already the packages, just keep on copy pasting
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sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf checkinstall \ libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev intltool libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev \ libnotify-dev libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libcanberra-gtk-dev |
Keep following and do not worry everything is going fine.
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sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf checkinstall \ libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev intltool libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev \ libnotify-dev libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libcanberra-gtk-dev |
Now we are going to go to the folder that we are installing the source code, then we will install the source code and after that we are going to compile it and finally finish our installation. Don’t make the words scare you and just keep on copy pasting. Note the dollar sign, each starts with the dollar sign is a separate code.
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$ cd $HOME $ wget http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-1.83.tar.bz2 $ tar xjvf transmission-1.83.tar.bz2 $ cd transmission-1.83 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo checkinstall --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" --backup=no --deldoc=yes \ --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default --pkgversion "1.83" $ make distclean |
Well congratulations you have succesfuly finished installation of the Transmission 1.83
Features
Now Lets learn a little about Transmission, I will start from the beginning so every body would understand how to use it.
Adding a Torrent file and downloading it
After you install the torrent file (source file) you will be able to add it as it is shown below
Click add
The downloaded files will go to the “Download” folder so when the window prompted just select it and add it like below.
After adding the torrent file, all of the files are selected to be downloaded by default. If there are things that you don’t want to download you can do it from here. If you forget or decide later on to not download some of the things, I will show later on.
As you see above, you can see the selected torrent file, which you can change if you want, you can select the destination folder and change the destination. Do not forget to check the box called “Move .torrent file to trash” other wise you have to do it manually. After everything is ready you can just click to add.
After the adding process over you will start downloading the file in this case it is ubuntu 9.10
In the window above after your download starts you will have the options to “pause”, “resume”, “remove”, and “properties” buttons. When you click the Properties button you will have the window below,
When this window is open you will see that there are “Information”, “Peers”, “Trackers”, “Files”, and “Options” tabs, which you will only use, Information tab for detailed information if you would like to see what is happening for that download, Files tab to see which files you are downloading for the torrent, and Options tab for specifying the download and upload limit, Priority of the torrent, Seeding options, and total connected peers.
Mac OS X
Installation
Installing Transmission is not different than installing any other application to Mac OS X. After finishing download you click to the .dmg file and dragging Transmission Icon to the Applications folder.
Features
Transmission for Mac OS X is generally the same with Transmission for Ubuntu with some little differences. To be more clear it has some nice tricks. The main window looks like this;
To download a file first download the torrent file. After the torrent has downloaded go to the “Downloads” folder and double click the torrent file. It will automatically open Transmission. Another way to add a torrent file is the how I mentioned before in Ubuntu section.
So after you add the torrent you will have this screen below to specify the torrents like you do in ubuntu but there are some differences that is easy to realize.
So as you realized there are some differences, First of all you can’t change the torrent file, which is a little bit annoying. The other thing you will see, something called Group and next to it there is a drop drown list with a lot of colors. This future I would like to see in Linux versions too. Basically you can select where the file will be downloaded (which folder). The way to specify it is; click Transmission tab from the Toolbar and select “Preferences”. You will have the same window as below.
Select the “Groups” tab. As you see I have accustomed the files that is grouped red to be saved in Movies folder. I have also selected that yellow would be Music folder. Another option for grouping is activating “Assign group to new transfers based on criteria” check box, by activating this option you can group the items by the criteria: name(s), trackers, or what it contains in their name(s).
After all of those, check the box corresponding “Trash torrent file”, and click “Add” button.
The other differences are on the right corner of the main window to be able to toggle the filter bar which gives you more space when needed, Quick look to the selected items, which more less useless, and the information button, which you can see the same things when you double click on a file, which makes the button a little bit useless too.
If you want to add any other feature that I have not mentioned please send me an e-mail I will be adding it.
I have used ubuntu forums as a reference for this article if you are interested for more information please click here