Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository
About
Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. It comes in several flavors:
Visit https://transmissionbt.com/ for more information.
Documentation
Transmission's documentation is currently out-of-date, but the team has recently begun a new project to update it and is looking for volunteers. If you're interested, please feel free to submit pull requests!
Command line interface notes
Transmission is fully supported in transmission-remote, the preferred cli client.
Three standalone tools to examine, create, and edit .torrent files exist: transmission-show, transmission-create, and transmission-edit, respectively.
Prior to development of transmission-remote, the standalone client transmission-cli was created. Limited to a single torrent at a time, transmission-cli is deprecated and exists primarily to support older hardware dependent upon it. In almost all instances, transmission-remote should be used instead.
Different distributions may choose to package any or all of these tools in one or more separate packages.
Building
Transmission has an Xcode project file (Transmission.xcodeproj) for building in Xcode.
For a more detailed description, and dependencies, visit How to Build Transmission in docs
Building a Transmission release from the command line
$ tar xf transmission-4.0.4.tar.xz $ cd transmission-4.0.4Building Transmission from the nightly buildsUse -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo to build optimized binary with debug information. (preferred)
Use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release to build full optimized binary.
$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo $ cd build $ cmake --build . $ sudo cmake --install .
Download a tarball from https://build.transmissionbt.com/job/trunk-linux/ and follow the steps from the previous section.
If you're new to building programs from source code, this is typically easier than building from Git.
Building Transmission from Git (first time)
$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/transmission/transmission Transmission $ cd TransmissionBuilding Transmission from Git (updating)Use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo to build optimized binary with debug information. (preferred)
Use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release to build full optimized binary.
$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo $ cd build $ cmake --build . $ sudo cmake --install .
$ cd Transmission/build $ cmake --build . -t clean $ git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -xfd $ git pull --rebase --prune $ git submodule update --init --recursive $ cmake --build . $ sudo cmake --install .Contributing Code Style
You would want to setup your editor to make use of the .clang-format file located in the root of this repository and the eslint/prettier rules in web/package.json.
If for some reason you are unwilling or unable to do so, there is a shell script which you can use: ./code_style.sh
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