How To Install transmission-qt on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-qt on Ubuntu.

What is `transmission-qt`

transmission-qt is:

Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). All its incarnations feature a very simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

This package contains the Qt stand-alone client.

There are three methods to install transmission-qt on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install transmission-qt Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install transmission-qt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install transmission-qt

Install transmission-qt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install transmission-qt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install transmission-qt

Install transmission-qt Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install transmission-qt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install transmission-qt

How To Uninstall transmission-qt on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the transmission-qt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove transmission-qt

Uninstall transmission-qt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall transmission-qt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove transmission-qt

Remove transmission-qt Configurations and Data

To remove transmission-qt configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge transmission-qt

Remove transmission-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove transmission-qt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge transmission-qt

Dependencies

transmission-qt have the following dependencies:

References

transmission-qt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-qt package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.