Install Transmission 2.0 in Ubuntu

March 10, 2017

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Transmission is one of the P2P torrent client for Linux and Mac. The interface is quite intuitive and user friendly. Following are some of the features of Transmission 2.0.

  • “Local Peer Discovery” for finding peers on the local network
  • Optimize download requests for the bandwidth available
  • Smarter heuristics when deciding the order to connect to peers
  • Faster verification of local data
  • Faster startup
  • Support more blocklist file formats
  • Use IEC standard units (KiB, MiB, GiB) instead of (KB, MB, GB)
  • Better handling of 404 tracker errors

In order to install transmission 2.0 torrent client type the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install transmission

Once installed you can find it under Applications > Internet > Transmission