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

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

apt-get install transmission-cli

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

transmission-cli 
big-buck-bunny.torrent -w /results