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Debian Install From Tarballs, Packages

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Introduction

There are tarballs and packages available for Debian and Ubuntu LTS distributions that contain pre-compiled binaries. You can download and install such a tarball/package from Bintray — assuming one is available for your platform.

Notes: Installing from Source is still the preferred way for the following reasons:

  • tarballs and packages are NOT CPU optimized builds (for obvious reasons)
  • tarballs and packages aren't freqently updated

Installing tarball, package dependencies

First, you need to install a few required packages if they are not available on your system — and no, this is not optional in any way. These steps must be performed by the root user (i.e. in a root shell, or by writing sudo before the actual command):

Common packages amongst distros

You have to install the following packages:

apt-get update
apt-get install libc6 libgcc1 libstdc++6 zlib1g

Distro specific packages

You also have to install the following distro specific packages (Debian 10 means testing currently):

  • Debian 7: libncursesw5 libtinfo5 libssl1.0.0 libcppunit-1.12-1
  • Debian 8: libncursesw5 libtinfo5 libssl1.0.0 libcppunit-1.13-0
  • Debian 9: libncursesw5 libtinfo5 libssl1.1 libcppunit-1.13-0v5
  • Debian 10: libncursesw6 libtinfo6 libssl1.1 libcppunit-1.14-0
  • Ubuntu 14: libncursesw5 libtinfo5 libssl1.0.0
  • Ubuntu 16: libncursesw5 libtinfo5 libssl1.0.0
  • Ubuntu 18: libncursesw5 libtinfo5 libssl1.1

Installing rTorrent-PS-CH packages

The packages install the rTorrent-PS-CH binary including some libraries into /opt/rtorrent-ps-ch* directory and create symlinks to it in /usr/local/bin/, /usr/local/lib/ and /opt/ directories. Example using Ubuntu 14.04:

version="1.8.3-0.9.8-ubuntu-trusty_amd64"
curl -Lko "/tmp/rtorrent-ps-ch_$version.deb" "https://bintray.com/chros73/rtorrent-ps-ch/download_file?file_path=rtorrent-ps-ch_$version.deb"
dpkg -i "/tmp/rtorrent-ps-ch_$version.deb"

Extracting rTorrent-PS-CH tarballs

Note: tarballs also need the above mentioned package dependencies!

Tarballs can be extracted anywhere on the filesystem, e.g. into ~/lib directory as a regular user using Ubuntu 14.04 (symlinks manually need to be created if necessary):

version="1.8.3-0.9.8-ubuntu-trusty_amd64"
curl -Lko "/tmp/rtorrent-ps-ch_$version.tar.gz" "https://bintray.com/chros73/rtorrent-ps-ch/download_file?file_path=rtorrent-ps-ch_$version.tar.gz"
mkdir -p ~/lib
tar -xzvf "/tmp/rtorrent-ps-ch_$version.tar.gz" -C ~/lib/