qBittorrent is a multi-platform lightweight but fully featured BitTorrent client. It’s authors claim it’s the closest open source (GNU GPL v2 license) equivalent to µTorrent.
qBittorrent Features
- Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
- Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
- Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
- Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
- All Bittorrent extensions
- DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs.
- Remote control through a Web user interface
- Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
- Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
- Torrents queueing and prioritizing
- Torrent content selection and prioritizing
- UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
- Available in 25 languages (Unicode support)
- Torrent creation tool
- Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
- Bandwidth scheduler
- IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible)
- IPv6 compliant
- Sequential downloading (aka “Download in order”)
- Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD
Install qBittorrent in Ubuntu
qBittorrent has a Launchpad PPA you can add:
$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hydr0g3n/qbittorrent-stable
Once the PPA has been added, install qBittorrent in Ubuntu using the following commands:
$sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent
That’s it , now use start using it.
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