Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Ktorrent best torrent client in ubuntu 16.04. Ktorrent is an open source torrent client application provided by K Desktop Environment (KDE) used to download files from internet from torrent servers/websites. This application was initially developed by Ivan Vasić and Joris Guisson using C++ programming language and released under GNU Public License. Ktorrent torrent client is only available for Linux and Unix related operating systems.

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Ktorrent is a nice light weight application comes with so many features listed below :

You can use Ktorrent best torrent client application on proxy based internet environment.

It can queue the torrent’s when one torrent is already downloading.

If you want you can block particular IP address by installing an additional plugin.

Ktorrent best torrent client supports RSS feed.

Ktorrent supports µTP.

You can download using both version of IP address i.e. IPv4 & IPv6.

Can control the downloading speed.

You can schedule the downloading for any torrent file.

Follow the below steps to install Ktorrent best torrent client in Ubuntu 16.04

Before start the installation let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB] Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease Fetched 102 kB in 1s (74.8 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done

Now let’s go ahead and install Ktorrent best torrent client package using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ktorrent # Install Ktorrent Torrent client Package Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: addressmanager.app gnumail.app-common gnustep-back-common gnustep-back0.24 gnustep-back0.24-cairo gnustep-base-common gnustep-base-runtime gnustep-common gnustep-gui-common gnustep-gui-runtime libaddresses0 libaddressview0 libflite1 libfltk1.3 libgnustep-base1.24 libgnustep-gui0.24 libobjc4 libpantomime1.2 mknfonts.tool . . . update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu to provide /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu (kdesu) in auto mode Setting up ktorrent (4.3.1-4) ... Setting up ntrack-module-libnl-0 (016-1.3) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...

As you can see on the output above we have successfully installed the Ktorrent torrent client package. To confirm the same you can use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l ktorrent # Confirm the installed Package Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=============================-===================-===================-================================================================ ii ktorrent 4.3.1-4 amd64 BitTorrent client based on the KDE platform

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Now to open the application just type the command ktorrent on the shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ ktorrent # Open the Ktorrent application

Package Version :

You can also open the Ktorrent best torrent client application using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the Ktorrent best torrent client package refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r ktorrent # Uninstall the Ktorrent Package (Reading database ... 236506 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ktorrent (4.3.1-4) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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