Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Torrents in Kali Linux - Best Torrent Client to Use in Kali Linux / BackTrack [Screenshot Included]

Written by: Pranshu Bajpai | Find Pranshu on Google+ And LinkedIn

I tried the following client for downloading torrents in Kali Linux and it worked really well. Nice light-weight application with no bells and whistles. It's called Transmission.

            #apt-get install transmission

Here's a screenshot:



Do not use TOR (onion router) to download torrents (if torrents are blocked on your network). TOR is for anonymous web surfing purpose only. Their servers are not able to handle the massive traffic generated by peer to peer networks.

Disclaimer: I do not endorse downloading copyrighted files for free using peer to peer networks. This post was made only to demonstrate a peer to peer client for Linux.


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9 comments:

  1. Richard ScothcJuly 4, 2013 at 8:51 AM

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  2. AnonymousAugust 21, 2013 at 11:37 AM

    how to use transmission behind proxy server.?????

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    1. Pranshu BajpaiSeptember 14, 2013 at 6:17 AM

      It doesn't support a Proxy Server as far as I know. These days i'm behind a proxy myself and I can't get it to work.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2013 at 9:05 AM

    Does transmission support ip filtering?

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  4. pratulaug88December 1, 2014 at 6:43 PM

    I did all the changes which you listed above. But still, I am getting the error -
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package qbittorrent

    I used the following command as well -
    apt-get install transmission

    But still got the error -
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package transmission

    Please help !!

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    1. Pranshu BajpaiDecember 2, 2014 at 5:26 AM

      You need to add the repository containing the 'transmission' package. Then, #apt-get update && apt-get install transmission

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    2. AnonymousApril 22, 2015 at 8:17 AM

      Hello Pranshu, I got the same error as pratulaug88, and I followed your suggestion. Now this is what I get:

      E: Type 'http://packages.debians.org' is not known on line 11 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
      E: The list of sources could not be read.

      What am I doing wrongly?

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    3. Pranshu BajpaiApril 23, 2015 at 8:17 AM

      You did not modify the 'sources.lst' file correctly. There is no 'debians.org'. Remove the 's'. Also, the format of repositories in sources.lst should be like this: deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib

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