Comments on: rTorrent/Ubuntu

By: Vampire

Vampire — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:32:17 +0000

What I posted is what I actually did and this works fine. The –with-xmlrpc-c flag is set in the ubuntu source, so this doesn’t need to be set explicitly. The only problem with the packages provided by Ubuntu is that they are built against the too old version of libxmlrpc-c3.

By: Eric Kok

Eric Kok — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:25 +0000

Make sure you compile with -with-xmlrpc-c though to get 64-bit integer support!

By: Vampire

Vampire — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:04:07 +0000

The building/installation is possible very much easier:

- Download the libxmlrpc-c3 experimental debian packages
- sudo apt-get remove libxmlrpc-c3 libxmlrpc-core-c3
- sudo dpkg -i libxmlrpc-c3_1.16.07-1_amd64.deb libxmlrpc-c3-dev_1.16.07-1_amd64.deb
- mkdir build_rTorrent && cd build_rTorrent
- sudo apt-get build-dep rtorrent
- apt-get -b source rtorrent
- sudo dpkg -i rtorrent_0.8.2-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- sudo /etc/init.d/rtorrent start
- cd .. && rm -rf build_rTorrent

By: aidan

aidan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:15:12 +0000

I was being an idiot. I had the ‘Server OS’ option set as ‘Windows’ instead of ‘Linux’. Works now! Thanks Eric.

By: Ejal de Klerk

Ejal de Klerk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:38:29 +0000

Never mind, i missed that there was a autogen.sh in the folder.

By: Ejal de Klerk

Ejal de Klerk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:36:43 +0000

I didn’t have autogen on my system, maybe you should add that to the build requirements

By: Eric Kok

Eric Kok — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:25:41 +0000

No, that should have no effect on that. (It is only important for the large file sizes to display correctly.)

Have you tried different torrent sites? isoHunt is known not to work (well) with rTorrent. Otherwise, you might want to check out http://code.google.com/p/transdroid/issues/detail?id=175 for a similar problem.

By: aidan

aidan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:02:59 +0000

I’m using Ubuntu 10.04, but didn’t bother using the latest version or libxmlrpc, and I found that if I remove xmlrpc_dialect=i8 from the config file – it still works.

But, I can’t seem to add torrents from transdroid. Is this a likely side effect?

Thanks for your great app!

By: sirius2834

sirius2834 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:54:52 +0000

Hi,

I would like to thank you for this superb install guide. This was the first one ever that included ALL the necessary steps to config and use rtorrent. Thanks a lot

By: Eric Kok

Eric Kok — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:33:56 +0000

Keefe, you are right. You only need to expose the RPC-XML API to your localhost; I changed this in the install guide.

Note that it was only a real security risk when you had port 5000 opened, but it’s still good to fix this.