rtorrent with magnet link support

December 11th, 2009 | Categories: linux | Tags: , , ,

Yesterday I wanted to download a file but could find only magnet link. Since rtorrent doesn’t support magnet link yet officially, I did some research on google and came cross this great tutorial on how to patch the source from svn and get magnet link support. So here they are, deb packages for libtorrent and rtorrent. These packages were built for my debian squeeze, so I’m not sure if they also work on ubuntu, but if you want you can try.

deb rtorrent with magnet link support  libtorrent11_0.12.6-4_i386.deb (371.5 KiB, 139 hits)

deb rtorrent with magnet link support  rtorrent_0.8.6-2_i386.deb (393.9 KiB, 114 hits)

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  1. Pepe Gnu
    January 8th, 2010 at 13:52
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    Hi,

    The *.deb-files seem to be empty.

    I tried the tutorial above but couldn’t compile rtorrent because of version missmatch
    (rtorrent required libtorrent version >= 0.12-something, whereas the one compiled was 0.11-something.

    //Peppe

  2. phill84
    January 8th, 2010 at 15:14
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    files are reuploaded and they should be fine right now. If you wanna compile rtorrent yourself then you should get the latest source from svn