Questions tagged [transmission]
Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). It is Ubuntu's default BitTorrent client since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
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How can I make Firefox open magnet-links in Transmission?
I can't find out how to make Firefox open magnet-links in Transmission.
There is no option to make it the standard program for magnet-links in its properties, and as I am not experienced with the ...
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How to configure Chrome to open magnet URI's with Deluge?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) from 10.10, I can no longer open magnet (torrent) links in Chromium, and set deluge to automatically open and accept the URL.
(Edit: currently ".torrent&...
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How can I ensure transmission traffic uses a VPN?
I'd like to ensure that transmission only sends/receives traffic when the server it runs on is connected to a VPN.
I found this question which is similar but I don't want to force all traffic ...
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What is "web seed"?
I'm downloading a file with Transmission. It shows a connection to a web seed. See the below screenshot:
What is that "web seed", shown in the picture (which kind of seeders?)? Is it safe?
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Permission denied when downloading with transmission daemon
I installed Xubuntu and transmission daemon, set the download path to my home/user/TV shows, and get a permission denied when trying to download torrents through the transmission.
I tried chmod -r 777 ...
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How to change the default permissions of files created by transmission-daemon?
I have a machine running Ubuntu 12.04 server with transmission-daemon running to handle bitorrents. Everything works fine except the transmission-daemon creates files as the user/group, debian-...
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Where does Transmission save my torrent files?
I have a lot of torrents and currently I use Transmission as my torrent client.
However, there is a problem — After I change the folder name (which is important for me to organize my music folder), ...
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Transmission webui problem - Conflict 409
I am running the latest stable version of Transmission (version 2.31 from the Transmission ppa). Any time I try to log in to the web user interface, I get hit with this:
409: Conflict
Your ...
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Removing Transmission Bit torrent client
Simply want to remove this client, don't really like it. Can't figure out what packages it's installed as, tried both transmission and transmission-daemon, the first not being anything and the second ...
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Transmission-daemon keeps resetting
i have been trying to configure transmission-daemon so i can connect using the webui avaliable at http://server.ip-address:9091 , but i just get a message telling me that i should either disable the ...
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How to use proxy for Transmission?
I have heard that Proxy Support in Trasmission has been removed as of version 2.12. Is it possible to use proxy by any other method?
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Transmission daemon over OpenVPN
I have recently acquired a BeagleBone Black, onto which I've installed Ubuntu using this method. It has all worked so far.
I want to use my BeagleBone as a torrent box, but I don't want to do it ...
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Transmission says port is closed but seeding is happening
I'm using Transmission right now.
The Transmission's test of the port says: port is closed. But there is seeding activity (around 160KB/s).
I re-checked the port with an online site. It says ...
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Why are my torrents not downloading?
I am using transmission-daemon and controlling it through the webgui.
Currently I have two torrents from separate trackers that are on 0B of OB status. I am using transmission. On one torrent at last ...
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Scheduled download by transmission during nightly hours? (downloading just at a specified period of a day)
I want to limit transmission to work at 02:00 AM untill 08:00. How?
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Enable logging for service
I'm trying to figure out how to enable logging in Transmission.
I know I can run the daemon in the foreground:
transmission-daemon -f --logfile /your/path/to/transmission.log
But this is not what I ...
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Transmission won't connect to any peers
After my upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 12.10, Transmission won't download from an anti-leech tracker (ALT). If I download a torrent via Magnet Link, everything works fine, but if I download from ...
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How do I change the user Transmission runs under?
I installed Transmission through a PPA and the daemon starts on boot. I want to change the user that runs the daemon because I want the downloaded files to be under the same user as my XBMC ...
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How to exclude files in torrent from download?
Is it possible to exclude certain files within a torrent from downloading using the Transmission client? I can't seem to be able to find any such option. If I go to Properties → Files, there are no ...
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How do I stop transmission-daemon?
How do I stop transmission-daemon?
I've ran sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop and after a while I get confirmation that it completed [ OK ]:
greg@VManage:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-...
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Torrent magnet links open new window but not transmission
I've installed Ubuntu and Lubuntu a few times now and some of those times I've had the following problem, which I currently have. When I click a torrent magnet link in Chrome (usually from Pirate bay),...
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Want a CLI interface to Transmission: transmission-remote, transmission-cli, transmission-remote-cli?
The Ubuntu 20.04 package transmission-cli says:
This package contains a (deprecated) stand-alone command-line client, transmission-remote to interface with transmission-daemon and tools to create, ...
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view transmission status through cli
I have installed transmission, and i have added a torrent to it, now how will i be able to view the details of the torrents.
i have tried transmission-remote on local system.
m@m-170:/home/m/$ ...
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How can I have transmission start automatically when I open my computer?
My system runs on Ubuntu 12.04 and I use the transmission bit-torrent client which was installed on it. It works just fine but I would like it to open as soon as I get on the system instead of having ...
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How can I change the default downloading folder for Transmission?
I would like to change the folder but I don't know where can I configure Tranmission.
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Configuring Transmission for faster download
I have tested on the same PC with the same torrent/magnet links the following Torrent Clients:
Transmission
Ktorrent
Deluge
qBittorrent
Vuze
After 7 days of testing I noticed that the only one ...
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Changing the torrent programm for magnet URL
for the moment I'm downloading torrents via magnet sing Transmission, when the first time I was asked by chromium to open the magnet URL, I choosed Transmission and I checked the Remember my choice ...
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How to make Transmission download torrents behind a proxy?
Can anyone help me configure Transmission to download torrent files behind a proxy?
I have http_proxy set in my .bashrc.
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Transmission not downloading
I'm using the Transmission which was shipped in 11.10.
All the configurations in Ubuntu 11.10 are the same as they are in my Mac OS.
In Ubuntu, Transmission is not downloading at all: 0 peers at all ...
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transmission-remote: How to monitor list of torrents in terminal?
I have just installed transmission on my server which runs Ubuntu desktop. I have no issue with downloading files and so forth, but would like to keep a terminal window open on my work computer where ...
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Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker
I want to set up Edubuntu for a small non-profit school in South Africa.
I'm trying to download the file edubuntu-14.04-dvd-i386.iso.torrent from http://dl.stgraber.org/releases/edubuntu/14.04/
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What is the difference between the "start" and "start now" options in Transmission?
In Transmission, if you right-click on a paused torrent, you will get a menu. One option is "Start" and the one below that is "Start Now".
Neither of these options have any tooltips associated with ...
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How do I open port 51413 for Transmission?
I just moved to Ubuntu on my MacBook and I spent the whole day trying to open port 51413 for Transmission.
What I've already done:
I have ufw but I opened ports there and tried without it - probably ...
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Is there a way to schedule the downloads in Transmission BitTorrent Client?
I have added a couple of torrent files to Transmission BitTorrent Client to be downloaded.
I have a limited internet speed so I can't start all of them in a single go; so I have to peep in after ...
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preventing transmission-daemon from auto start?
On Xubuntu 14.04 I have installed the package transmission-daemon. It appears to start automatically when I start the computer. Is it possible to prevent this from happening and instead I would like ...
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How to make Opera open magnet links?
I have Transmission 2.52 and Opera 11.64 x64, when I try to open a magnet link from The Pirate Bay, Opera says it cant recognize that protocol, how to set up?
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Transmission tracker and/or torrent traffic through proxy
I am trying to get Transmission to connect through a SOCKv5 proxy.
I am not able to find any settings in the graphical interface to Transmission that allows me to change proxy server for the program. ...
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Where is the settings.json file stored for Transmission?
I've bought a Raspberry Pi and I have managed to install xbian, samba and bittorrent (transmission).
All the fun showed up when I tried to upgrade the older version from the repo to the latest ...
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Unable to download torrent in Transmission after updating firewall
I recently updated (enabled and updated) firewall setting using this guide on wiki.ubuntu.com.
I followed Method 2 UFW. However, after completing the process am unable to download torrents in ...
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Transmission causes internet to stop working - log off required to make it work again
After some time of downloading torrents via Transmission the internet connection stops working, causing both torrents and sites to not load. This only happens on my machine (meaning other computers/...
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Where is Tor Browser opening Transmission from? How can I open the "same" Transmission?
When I launch Tor-Browser, it first launches Vidalia, then a special version of Firefox bundled with the Tor Browser package. If I try to download a (legal!) torrent in the Tor Browser version of ...
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Make WebTorrent handle magnet links
I seem to have forgotten how to make WebTorrent, or any torrent application automatically grab the magnet torrent links from websites like thepiratebay.org?
There's no file to download so I cannot ...
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Add multiple trackers at once with Transmission Remote
I recently bought a QNap I use as download station, so I switched from downloading files with uTorrent on my PC to downloading them with Transmission on the QNap.
I use Transmission Remote to ...
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Permissions issue with symlinks over samba
I'm having trouble accessing some files over a samba share. Here's my setup:
I have shared /shared as Shared
I have a user with the same name and pwd as my Linux user in my Windows machine
I made ...
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File permission management
I would like to be able to move files downloaded by transmission in the name of my primary user.
I added this user to the group debian-transmission, but it is not enough, only the owner has the ...
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transmission-daemon: error loading working config-file. User priveliges?
Transmission-daemon has worked perfectly on a small headless server for a long time. However, it currently gives me the following error:
transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (...
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How do I limit the upload speed of Transmission client to below 5kB/s?
I want to restrict the upload speed of my transmission client to 1kB/s, is it possible?
What changes do I need to make to lower the upload speed?
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Transmission won't work on port 80
I was trying to use Transmission's Web Interface, and it worked perfectly. I could access it via http://localhost:8080/transmission/web/, I could use my local IP, I could use 127.0.0.1, I could, after ...
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Transfer partially complete torrent from Windows to Ubuntu?
I have started a torrent in Windows (Vuze) and it is at 18%, however I wish to continue the torrent in ubuntu on another computer.
Can I simply copy the so-far-completed downloaded files to ubuntu, ...
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How do I get https web interface in Transmission?
I use Transmission's Web Interface, but I don't feel comfortable using it remotely (outside of LAN, e.g., from a friend's house) due to the lack of any sort of encryption. The idea of broadcasting my ...
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