Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install buildtorrent
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is buildtorrent
buildtorrent is:
buildtorrent is a torrent file creation program. Given an announce url and an
input file or directory, buildtorrent generates an output .torrent file that
can be used by torrent clients.
There are three methods to install buildtorrent
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install buildtorrent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install buildtorrent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install buildtorrent
Install buildtorrent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install buildtorrent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install buildtorrent
Install buildtorrent Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install buildtorrent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install buildtorrent
How To Uninstall buildtorrent on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the buildtorrent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove buildtorrent
Uninstall buildtorrent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall buildtorrent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove buildtorrent
Remove buildtorrent Configurations and Data
To remove buildtorrent
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge buildtorrent
Remove buildtorrent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove buildtorrent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge buildtorrent
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install buildtorrent
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.