In this article I’d like to describe a text-mode Bittorrent client - rTorrent. It will be helpful to people that share a computer with other household members because it allows them to download files regardless of the logged in user. What’s more, because it is a text-mode client (runs under ncurses) you can watch how it works through any ssh client, web browser (ajaxterm) or even cell phone (MidpSSH). Wikipedia and the official website says that the very optimized code makes rTorrent much faster than the official client. So, do you want more? Bring it on!

What do you need?

First of all you will need a copy of rTorrent and libtorrent libs. You can download these two from the official website but first check your distribution’s repository. We will need also a program screen, which should be found in most repositories.
If you have already installed these packages, you can run rTorrent now. Just write “rtorrent” in a terminal. What appears is described below. You will feel a little bit confused for sure, so I’ll try to explain it all

Window description

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