Complete Guide: Installing bittorrent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "bittorrent" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install bittorrent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bittorrent
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bittorrent" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall bittorrent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bittorrent
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bittorrent package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: bittorrent
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 161
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: all
Version: 3.4.2-12
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), python-bittorrent (= 3.4.2-12), python:any (>= 2.3~)
Recommends: mime-support
Suggests: bittorrent-gui
Filename: pool/universe/b/bittorrent/bittorrent_3.4.2-12_all.deb
Size: 43172
MD5sum: 2d04359c85c391826092dbe5eddb54af
SHA1: a48f4669a957a01d6c7599ae2c3f29d436f49601
SHA256: 3f1590a546b71b23aef00d76f953ebce8efeb9f8907e5bf78969e5c5b3a843e1
Description-en: Original BitTorrent client - console tools
BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It's extremely
easy to use - downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks.
Whenever more than one person is downloading at once
they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus relieving
the central server's bandwidth burden. Even with many
simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server
remains quite small, since each new downloader introduces new
upload capacity.
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This package contains the tools which are used for console-only
downloading. If you want the GUI interface, install the
bittorrent-gui package.
Description-md5: 4935eecd3a255fe4d524e368e9d5623d
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu