Ktorrent Status/Replacement

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Nov 17 15:04:04 UTC 2014


Transmission-qt does seem like a viable alternative.  It's in Main, which is 
nice since Canonical will take care of security support.  It's also already 
ported to Qt5.  Upstream is active as well.

Scott K

On Monday, November 17, 2014 02:51:58 PM David Wright wrote:
> Qtransmission?
> 
> On 17 Nov 2014 14:22, "Jörn Schönyan" <joern.schoenyan at web.de> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 17. November 2014 14:37:54 CEST schrieb Scott Kitterman:
> >> I took a look at the currently packaged alternatives and qbittorrent
> > 
> > seems
> > 
> >> like the obvious choice.  It's Qt based and is actively maintained in
> >> Debian and upstream.
> >> 
> >> Anyone have other suggestions?
> > 
> > You could have a look at Fatrat. I didn't have time to go deep in testing,
> > but it is a hybrid of Bittorrent client and download manager and seems
> > really fine. In combination with Firefox, it would be wise to ship
> > xul-ext-flashgot, synced from Debian, too. That would integrate Fatrat in
> > Firefox. I did also propose it to the Lubuntu team for the transition to
> > LXQt.





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