transmission-create, transmission-show, transmission-edit - Tools for generating, reading metadata of, and editing torrent files.transmission-cli - Downloads and seeds torrents on the command line, without a daemon.The transmission-cli package installs a few different CLI utilities. The rest of it can be found in the GitHub repo’s wiki. The (sort of sparse) official documentation can be found here. transmission-cli is a collection of command line utilities for creating, analyzing and downloading torrents. Transmission-daemon is the main torrent client, and as the name suggests, it runs in the background.
Just install transmission-cli and transmission-daemon. You can use whatever package manager that comes with your Linux distro of choice of course. sudo apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-daemon I’m using Raspbian, so I used apt-get to install the required packages. This post exists as a quick and dirty overview guide for people who want to torrent entirely from the command line (using Transmission).
It’s a great, easy to use torrent client unfortunately, there is a lack of decent documentation around it. I wanted a torrent client that I could use completely on the command line, run as a daemon of some sort. I’ve got a no-cap Internet connection lying around doing nothing when I’m at work. I figured I could put this always-on computer to some good use at the same time and contribute to torrent swarms for some Linux distros and other open source projects.
I set up a Raspberry Pi 3 for some smart home projects that have been swimming around in my head lately.