Torrents on Nextjournal

This notebook demonstrates how to download a file via torrent. First we need to install software-properties-common so we can add a new ppa repository.

apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common
16.9s
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We then add a new ppa so we can install transmission-cli , a tool for downloading torrents on the command line.

add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
4.1s
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apt-get install transmission-cli
4.6s
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Next we download our file (in this case Big Buck Bunny which is under a CC licence ). Beware that you need to stop the cell below as otherwise the client continues seeding

big-buck-bunny.torrent
21.86 KB
transmission-cli 
big-buck-bunny.torrent
-w /results
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Runtimes (1)