Howto Install qBittorrent in Ubuntu Gutsy/Hardy
Posted by admin on November 20th, 2007 
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qBittorrent features
qBittorrent can now be considered as a good alternative to other bittorrent clients. It provides a lot of features such as:
- A polished Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
- UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
- Encryption support (compatible with Azureus)
- Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
- Download from RSS streams
- An integrated search engine
- DHT (trackerless) support
- uTorrent Peer eXchange support (PeX)
- Directory scanning with automated download of torrents inside
- Good internationalization (~25 languages supported)
- Selective download of files in a torrent
- Media File previewing while downloading
- Torrent trackers edition and prioritizing
- Seeders / Leechers displayed in download list
- Styles support
- Files prioritizing in a torrent
- Torrent download in correct order
- System tray integration
- Tracker authentication support
- Unicode support
- Torrent downloading directly from their url
- Connection though a proxy
- IP Filtering similar to the one in eMule
Install qBittorrent in Ubuntu Gutsy
We need to edit sources.list
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add these to lines in the bottom of this file.
For Hardy Users
deb http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/hardy/ ./
deb-src http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/hardy/ ./
For Gutsy Users
deb http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/gutsy/ ./
deb-src http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/gutsy/ ./
Now save and close sources.list
Packages are signed, please enter the following command to get public key
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys A08A9A43
Update your sources list
sudo apt-get update
Install the qBittorrent in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install qbittorrent
Using qBittorrent
If you want to open qBittorrent go to Applications—>Internet—> qBittorrent
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
qBittorrent Version Details
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December 13th, 2007 at 9:59 am
tried to update my source list but got a message:
E: type ‘dep’ is not known on line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
can you advise please
regards C. ANDERSSEN
PS. I am a new to Linux/Ubuntu only installed A FEW DAYS AGO!!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:24 am
open the file /etc/apt/sources.list
and look for line 56 it should be deb not dep
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:55 am
I got to the part where I enter and after I enter that a few lines go by and I get an E: Couldn’t find package qbittorrent
Please tell me what Im doing wrong. I have only had Ubuntu 7.10 for a couple days, Also im having trouble getting Cedega to work with Fable: the lost chapters.
December 28th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
I having the Exact Problem, Ive Installed Exactly as You said and I come up with the same as Ryam.- Terminal said some of the files did not download right. I have Gutsy Gibbon.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:05 pm
It seems that the latest release of Qbittorrent was not published correctly to the URLs (there are several zero-length files). My install attempt stalls here:
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 am
Thanks a lot for the time to write such an useful how-to.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:20 am
Thanks.
Edited sources.list. Installed. It ran. Launched it. Browsed to a torrent file. It downloaded it.
That’s what i wanted.
Running Gutsy.