Cliente bittorrent Transmission Transmission bittorrent client is the default one in our installation of Ubuntu 8.10. It is a thin client, easy to use and free. It has recently been updated to version 1.52 with some bugs are eliminated.

Installation

Easy as always. From a terminal and using the command open our sources.list to add the repositories

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add the following lines

#transmission
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu intrepid main

Save the changes and close it to return to the terminal. The following commands install the pgp key that authenticates the packages to download.

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 976b5901365c5ca1
gpg --export --armor 976b5901365c5ca1 | sudo apt-key add -

Now update the repositories and install Transmission with the following command

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install transmission

If you do not want to use repositories can download packages from the service getdeb here must download and install the following packages

transmission-gtk
transmission-common

This all works perfectly in Ubuntu 8.10

Project page: Transmission