ilham88 / rt-auto-install

rtorrent and rutorrent automatic installer for modern operating systems on seedbox

Rtorrent + Rutorrent Auto Install Script by Bercik

Modern script for automatic rtorrent, rutorrent installation under Linux.

Makes your system seedbox ready in minutes!

News

Current version v1.1 released 2022/01/16

Fixed #19 Fixed rare case if wget is missing
Added support for Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

For details, always go to Changelog.

Features

• This script performs automatic installation of rTorrent (BitTorrent client) and ruTorrent(web based GUI).
• It detects your OS and uses most recent version of rT available in repository of your Linux distribution.
• Uses SINGLE file for all supported operating systems.
• Gives menu-driven guidance when creating username.
• It's actively developed and I'm not planning to drop it like others did :P

Supported operating systems

• Debian 11 Bullseye
• Debian 10 Buster
• Raspbian 10 Buster
• Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri
• Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo
• Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla
• Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa
• Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine
• Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo
• Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish
• Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
• Mint 20.1 Ulyssa
• Mint 20 Ulyana
• Mint 19.01 Tessa
• Mint 19 Tara

More to come, see TODO.

What the scripts does

In the installation process you have to choose a system user to run rtorrent. Also you will get the opportunity of installing a total of 46 plugins. See list further down. The script add a init script that makes rtorrent start, at a possible reboot, in the given username's screen/tmux session. Use "service rtorrent-init start" and "service rtorrent-init stop" to start and stop rtorrent respectively.

Promo

Screenshoot

Installation

Installation video

Run the script with sudo or as root

git clone https://github.com/Bercik1337/rt-auto-install.git
cd rt-auto-install
sudo ./Rt-Install-minimal

or now you can simply wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bercik1337/rt-auto-install/master/Rt-Install-minimal

FAQ

But WHY if we have Docker version?

I took over abandoned installation script because author didn't want to develop it anymore. Excuse was that everything moved to Docker.

In my personal opinion that's a bad move, and no one else fixed script - so I did. Docker itself is not a bad idea, but I would like to see it in dynamic, scalable environments where it grows and shrinks depending on workload.

That's certainly NOT the case here. rtorrent is ran usually 24/7, does not work in cluster solutions or anything close to that. So sticking it into Docker is 1. waste of resources (CPU, disk) 2. Security risk (everything you'd normally have PLUS Docker problems). I might be the only person using this script - so be it. No containers for this app.

Support for more OSes?

See TODO