Transmission is a cross platform bittorrent client. It is an open-source, lightweight and volunteer-based project, and, it is extremely easy to use.<\/p>\n
It is Ubuntu\u2019s default torrent client and extremely poweful. And today we are going to learn how to install it in a remote server aka headless server.<\/p>\n
Note: Do not install using root user. Choose a user with admin privileges .<\/p>\n
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1 \u2013 Open terminal and type:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n 2 \u2013 Next, we\u2019ll need to make the directories where transmission will download and store complete\/incomplete files:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3 \u2013 Transmission-daemon runs using the user \u201cdebian-transmission\u201d, so we need to grant it full access to the folder. Also, we will give ourselves access to the directories.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4 \u2013 Add current user to debian-transmission group.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5 \u2013 Change permissions to allow only owner and group access:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6 \u2013 Edit the config file:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n download-dir\u009d: \/home\/<user>\/transmission\/completed<\/p>\n incomplete-dir\u009d: \/home\/<user>\/transmission\/ pc-authentication-required\u009d: true,#Authentication is enabled by default<\/p>\n pc-password\u009d: 1234567890 #Set a password for username<\/p>\n pc-port: 9091,<\/p>\n pc-username\u009d: transmission #Default username<\/p>\n pc-whitelist\u009d: 127.0.0.1,*.*.*.* #Allow access from anywhere<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n 7 \u2013 After you\u2019re done, restart the transmission daemon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8 \u2013 Go to your transmission web interface:<\/p>\n <server_ip>:9091<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Transmission is a cross platform bittorrent client. It is an open-source, lightweight and volunteer-based project, and, it is extremely easy to use. It is Ubuntu\u2019s default torrent client and extremely poweful. And today we are going to learn how to install it in a remote server aka headless server. Note: Do not install using root […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-how-to-setup-transmission-in-a-ubuntu"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sudo apt-get update<\/code><\/p>\nsudo apt-get install transmission-daemon<\/code><\/p>\nmkdir ~\/transmission<\/code><\/p>\nmkdir ~\/transmission\/completed ~\/transmission\/incomplete<\/code><\/p>\nsudo chown debian-transmission:debian-transmission ~\/transmission\/completed<\/code><\/p>\nudo chown debian-transmission:debian-transmission ~\/transmission\/incomplete<\/code><\/div>\nsudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission <user><\/code><\/p>\nsudo chmod 770 ~\/transmission\/*<\/code><\/p>\nsudo nano \/etc\/transmission-daemon\/<\/code>settings.json<\/p>\nsudo service transmission-daemon reload<\/code><\/p>\n