[5ef6186] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[42280956] | 7 | <!ENTITY transmission-download-http "https://transmission.cachefly.net/transmission-&transmission-version;.tar.xz">
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[5ef6186] | 8 | <!ENTITY transmission-download-ftp " ">
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[c93bd07] | 9 | <!ENTITY transmission-md5sum "3fce404a436e3cd7fde80fb6ed61c264">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY transmission-size "3.2 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY transmission-buildsize "338 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY transmission-time "1.6 SBU (with Qt and GTK gui interfaces)">
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[5ef6186] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[dd20c220] | 15 | <sect1 id="transmission" xreflabel="Transmission-&transmission-version;">
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[5ef6186] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="transmission.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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[dd20c220] | 23 | <title>Transmission-&transmission-version;</title>
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[5ef6186] | 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="transmission">
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[07dd360] | 26 | <primary sortas="a-Transmission">Transmission</primary>
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[5ef6186] | 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to Transmission</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>
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| 33 | <application>Transmission</application> is a cross-platform, open source
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| 34 | BitTorrent client. This is useful for downloading large files (such as
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| 35 | Linux ISOs) and reduces the need for the distributors to provide server
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| 36 | bandwidth.
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| 37 | </para>
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| 38 |
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[076ccb1] | 39 | &lfs79_checked;
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[5ef6186] | 40 |
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| 41 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 42 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>
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| 45 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&transmission-download-http;"/>
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| 46 | </para>
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| 47 | </listitem>
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| 48 | <listitem>
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| 49 | <para>
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| 50 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&transmission-download-ftp;"/>
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| 51 | </para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>
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| 55 | Download MD5 sum: &transmission-md5sum;
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| 56 | </para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>
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| 60 | Download size: &transmission-size;
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| 61 | </para>
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| 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 | <listitem>
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| 64 | <para>
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| 65 | Estimated disk space required: &transmission-buildsize;
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| 66 | </para>
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| 67 | </listitem>
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| 68 | <listitem>
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| 69 | <para>
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| 70 | Estimated build time: &transmission-time;
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| 71 | </para>
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| 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </itemizedlist>
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[204fe99] | 74 |
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[5ef6186] | 75 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Transmission Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 78 | <para role="required">
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| 79 | <xref linkend="curl"/>,
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[204fe99] | 80 | <xref linkend="libevent"/>, and
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[1cefd4d] | 81 | <xref linkend="openssl"/>
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[5ef6186] | 82 | </para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (to build a GUI)</bridgehead>
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| 85 | <para role="recommended">
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[204fe99] | 86 | <xref linkend="gtk3"/> and either
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[39372bab] | 87 | <xref linkend="qt4"/> or
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[204fe99] | 88 | <xref linkend="qt5"/>
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[5ef6186] | 89 | </para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 92 | <para role="optional">
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[204fe99] | 93 | <xref linkend="doxygen"/> and
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| 94 | <xref linkend="gdb"/>
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[5ef6186] | 95 | </para>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 98 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/transmission"/>
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| 99 | </para>
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| 100 | </sect2>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 103 | <title>Installation of Transmission</title>
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| 104 | <para>
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[39372bab] | 105 | Install <application>Transmission</application> by running the
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| 106 | following commands:
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[5ef6186] | 107 | </para>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 110 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <para>
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[39372bab] | 113 | The following commands are used if you have installed Qt and would like
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| 114 | to compile the Qt GUI. If <application>Qt4</application> and
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| 115 | <application>Qt5</application> are installed in
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| 116 | <filename class="directory">/opt</filename>, use
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[c1c7195] | 117 | <command>source setqt4</command> or <command>source setqt5</command> to
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[c93bd07] | 118 | choose which one will be used to build the Qt GUI.
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[39372bab] | 119 | </para>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <para>
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[c93bd07] | 122 | Compile the Qt GUI with the following commands:
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[5ef6186] | 123 | </para>
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| 124 |
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[204fe99] | 125 | <screen><userinput>pushd qt &&
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| 126 | qmake qtr.pro &&
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| 127 | make &&
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[07dd360] | 128 | popd</userinput></screen>
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[5ef6186] | 129 |
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| 130 | <para>
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| 131 | This package does not come with a test suite.
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| 132 | </para>
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <para>
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| 135 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 136 | </para>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <para>
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[8cce479c] | 141 | If you compiled the Qt GUI, install it by running the following commands
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| 142 | as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 143 | </para>
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| 144 |
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[204fe99] | 145 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make INSTALL_ROOT=/usr -C qt install &&
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| 146 |
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[8cce479c] | 147 | install -m644 qt/transmission-qt.desktop /usr/share/applications/transmission-qt.desktop &&
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[204fe99] | 148 | install -m644 qt/icons/transmission.png /usr/share/pixmaps/transmission-qt.png</userinput></screen>
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[8cce479c] | 149 |
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| 150 | </sect2>
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| 151 |
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| 152 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 153 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 154 |
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[1cefd4d] | 155 | <!-- with-gtk is auto detected if gtk3 is present -->
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[8cce479c] | 156 | <para>
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[1cefd4d] | 157 | <option>--without-gtk</option>: This switch disables building of the
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| 158 | <application>GTK+</application> interface if
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| 159 | <application>GTK+</application> is present on the system (useful for
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[f3a6abc9] | 160 | <application>Qt5</application> or cli only builds).
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[5ef6186] | 161 | </para>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | </sect2>
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| 164 |
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| 165 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 166 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <segmentedlist>
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| 169 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[c3c56b2] | 170 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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[5ef6186] | 171 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 172 |
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| 173 | <seglistitem>
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| 174 | <seg>
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[07dd360] | 175 | transmission-cli, transmission-create, transmission-daemon,
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| 176 | transmission-edit, transmission-gtk, transmission-qt,
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| 177 | transmission-remote and transmission-show
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| 178 | </seg>
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[c3c56b2] | 179 | <seg>
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| 180 | None
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| 181 | </seg>
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[07dd360] | 182 | <seg>
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| 183 | /usr/share/transmission
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[5ef6186] | 184 | </seg>
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| 185 | </seglistitem>
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| 186 | </segmentedlist>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <variablelist>
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| 189 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 190 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 191 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 192 |
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| 193 | <varlistentry id="transmission-cli">
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| 194 | <term><command>transmission-cli</command></term>
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| 195 | <listitem>
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| 196 | <para>
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| 197 | is a lightweight, command-line BitTorrent client with scripting
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[8cce479c] | 198 | capabilities.
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[5ef6186] | 199 | </para>
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| 200 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-cli">
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| 201 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-cli">transmission-cli</primary>
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| 202 | </indexterm>
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| 203 | </listitem>
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| 204 | </varlistentry>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <varlistentry id="transmission-create">
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| 207 | <term><command>transmission-create</command></term>
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| 208 | <listitem>
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| 209 | <para>
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[8cce479c] | 210 | is a command line tool used to create .torrent files.
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[5ef6186] | 211 | </para>
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| 212 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-create">
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| 213 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-create">transmission-create</primary>
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| 214 | </indexterm>
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| 215 | </listitem>
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| 216 | </varlistentry>
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| 217 |
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| 218 | <varlistentry id="transmission-daemon">
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| 219 | <term><command>transmission-daemon</command></term>
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| 220 | <listitem>
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| 221 | <para>
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| 222 | is a daemon-based Transmission session that can be controlled via
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| 223 | RPC commands from transmission's web interface or
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[8cce479c] | 224 | <command>transmission-remote</command>.
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[5ef6186] | 225 | </para>
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| 226 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-daemon">
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| 227 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-daemon">transmission-daemon</primary>
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| 228 | </indexterm>
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| 229 | </listitem>
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| 230 | </varlistentry>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <varlistentry id="transmission-edit">
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| 233 | <term><command>transmission-edit</command></term>
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| 234 | <listitem>
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| 235 | <para>
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[8cce479c] | 236 | is a command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs.
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[5ef6186] | 237 | </para>
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| 238 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-edit">
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| 239 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-edit">transmission-edit</primary>
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| 240 | </indexterm>
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| 241 | </listitem>
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| 242 | </varlistentry>
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| 243 |
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| 244 | <varlistentry id="transmission-gtk">
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| 245 | <term><command>transmission-gtk</command></term>
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| 246 | <listitem>
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| 247 | <para>
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[8cce479c] | 248 | is a GTK+ bittorrent client.
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[5ef6186] | 249 | </para>
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| 250 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-gtk">
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| 251 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-gtk">transmission-gtk</primary>
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| 252 | </indexterm>
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| 253 | </listitem>
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| 254 | </varlistentry>
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| 255 |
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| 256 | <varlistentry id="transmission-qt">
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| 257 | <term><command>transmission-qt</command></term>
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| 258 | <listitem>
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| 259 | <para>
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[8cce479c] | 260 | is a Qt bittorrent client.
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[5ef6186] | 261 | </para>
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| 262 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-qt">
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| 263 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-qt">transmission-qt</primary>
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| 264 | </indexterm>
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| 265 | </listitem>
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| 266 | </varlistentry>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <varlistentry id="transmission-remote">
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| 269 | <term><command>transmission-remote</command></term>
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| 270 | <listitem>
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| 271 | <para>
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[8cce479c] | 272 | is a remote control utility for transmission-daemon and transmission.
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[5ef6186] | 273 | </para>
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| 274 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-remote">
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| 275 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-remote">transmission-remote</primary>
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| 276 | </indexterm>
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| 277 | </listitem>
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| 278 | </varlistentry>
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| 279 |
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| 280 | <varlistentry id="transmission-show">
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| 281 | <term><command>transmission-show</command></term>
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| 282 | <listitem>
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| 283 | <para>
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[8cce479c] | 284 | is a command line tool to display bittorrent .torrent file metadata.
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[5ef6186] | 285 | </para>
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| 286 | <indexterm zone="transmission transmission-show">
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| 287 | <primary sortas="b-transmission-show">transmission-show</primary>
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| 288 | </indexterm>
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| 289 | </listitem>
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| 290 | </varlistentry>
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[8cce479c] | 291 |
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[5ef6186] | 292 | </variablelist>
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[8cce479c] | 293 |
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[5ef6186] | 294 | </sect2>
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[8cce479c] | 295 |
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[5ef6186] | 296 | </sect1>
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