What is Deluge? Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.
The latest release is version 1.3.15 . Check the release notes here before install it. You can install a daemon tool on a server and manage Deluge via deluge-webui which is a concise web UI for the browser. Try the command below to install it.
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deluge-team/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install deluge-webui deluged
Using screen to manage your daemons is a simple way. Maybe I do not advocate this.
sudo apt install screen
deluged
screen -S "deluge"
sudo deluge-web
screen -r deluge // switch
I hold that daemon management under Systemd is a better approach. For security it is best to run a service with a specific user and group. You can create one using the following command:
sudo adduser --system --gecos "Deluge Service" --disabled-password --group --home /var/lib/deluge deluge
sudo adduser <username> deluge
Then create two files containing the following:
vim /etc/systemd/system/deluged.service
[Unit]
Description=Deluge Bittorrent Client Daemon
Documentation=man:deluged
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=deluge
Group=deluge
UMask=007
ExecStart=/usr/bin/deluged -d
Restart=on-failure
# Time to wait before forcefully stopped.
TimeoutStopSec=300
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
vim /etc/systemd/system/deluge-web.service
[Unit]
Description=Deluge Bittorrent Client Web Interface
Documentation=man:deluge-web
After=network-online.target deluged.service
Wants=deluged.service
[Service]
Type=simple
User=deluge
Group=deluge
UMask=027
# This 5 second delay is necessary on some systems
# to ensure deluged has been fully started
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 5
ExecStart=/usr/bin/deluge-web
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now enable it to start up on boot, start the service and verify it is running:
sudo systemctl enable /etc/systemd/system/deluged.service
sudo systemctl start deluged
sudo systemctl status deluged
sudo systemctl enable /etc/systemd/system/deluge-web.service
sudo systemctl start deluge-web
sudo systemctl status deluge-web
Open your web browser and input this URL <your_server's_ip:8112> , you will be asked to enter a password which is by default set as deluge . After sign in, do not forget to change another password, then enjoy it.
What is Transmission? Transmission uses fewer resources than other clients. It has native Mac, GTK+ and Qt GUI clients and daemon ideal for servers support. All these can be remote controlled by Web and terminal clients. Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, webseed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
Currently the version is 2.94. You can found the previous releases here. Just like Deluge, Transmission also has a transmission-daemon which to be deployed onto any server. Now, let's install it.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install transmission-daemon
sudo apt autoremove
The following additional packages will be installed: libminiupnpc10 libnatpmp1 transmission-cli transmission-common. Since the daemon is starting, you can not modify the configuration immediately at all. What you have to do is stop it temporarily before the modification:
sudo service transmission-daemon stop
vim /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json
Here is the translation of configuration guide in Chinese (Simplified).〖简体中文配置文件在这里〗. Welcome to pull requests!
What's more, /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json links to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json. You need to change the first one exclusively. And here is an option list of configuration files which format is JSON. Let's take a look at what the default file is.
{
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",
"cache-size-mb": 4,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads",
"download-limit": 100,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"download-queue-enabled": true,
"download-queue-size": 5,
"encryption": 1,
"idle-seeding-limit": 30,
"idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
"incomplete-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"message-level": 1,
"peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
"peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,
"peer-limit-global": 200,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 50,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": "default",
"pex-enabled": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": false,
"preallocation": 1,
"prefetch-enabled": true,
"queue-stalled-enabled": true,
"queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
"ratio-limit": 2,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-host-whitelist": "",
"rpc-host-whitelist-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "pw",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-url": "/transmission/",
"rpc-username": "transmission",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
"scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "",
"seed-queue-enabled": false,
"seed-queue-size": 10,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 18,
"upload-limit": 100,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
"utp-enabled": true
}
Edit for yourself and start the daemon right now.
sudo service transmission-daemon start
http://your.domain.name:9091/transmission/web/ is what you want. The asked username and password are set by yourself. Type them in and begin seeding.