Transmission alternatives and similar software solutions
Based on the "Peer-to-peer filesharing" category.
Alternatively, view Transmission alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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Firefox Send
DISCONTINUED. A file sharing experiment which allows you to send encrypted files to other users. -
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Magnetissimo
Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database. -
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rartracker
DISCONTINUED. Complete private bittorrent tracker written in PHP and AngularJS [GET https://api.github.com/repos/swetorrentking/rartracker: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest] -
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Dat Project
Powerful decentralized file sharing applications built from a large ecosystem of modules.
InfluxDB high-performance time series database
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README
About
Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. It comes in several flavors:
- A native macOS GUI application
- GTK+ and Qt GUI applications for Linux, BSD, etc.
- A Qt-based Windows-compatible GUI application
- A headless daemon for servers and routers
- A web UI for remote controlling any of the above
Visit https://transmissionbt.com/ for more information.
Documentation
[Transmission's documentation](docs/README.md) is currently out-of-date, but the team has recently begun a new project to update it and is looking for volunteers. If you're interested, please feel free to submit pull requests!
Command line interface notes
Transmission is fully supported in transmission-remote, the preferred cli client.
Three standalone tools to examine, create, and edit .torrent files exist: transmission-show, transmission-create, and transmission-edit, respectively.
Prior to development of transmission-remote, the standalone client transmission-cli was created. Limited to a single torrent at a time, transmission-cli is deprecated and exists primarily to support older hardware dependent upon it. In almost all instances, transmission-remote should be used instead.
Different distributions may choose to package any or all of these tools in one or more separate packages.
Building
Transmission has an Xcode project file (Transmission.xcodeproj) for building in Xcode.
For a more detailed description, and dependencies, visit [How to Build Transmission](docs/Building-Transmission.md) in docs
Building a Transmission release from the command line
$ tar xf transmission-3.00.tar.xz
$ cd transmission-3.00
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ # Use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo to build optimized binary.
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Building Transmission from the nightly builds
Download a tarball from https://build.transmissionbt.com/job/trunk-linux/ and follow the steps from the previous section.
If you're new to building programs from source code, this is typically easier than building from Git.
Building Transmission from Git (first time)
$ git clone https://github.com/transmission/transmission Transmission
$ cd Transmission
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ # Use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo to build optimized binary.
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Building Transmission from Git (updating)
$ cd Transmission/build
$ make clean
$ git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -xfd
$ git pull --rebase --prune
$ git submodule update --recursive
$ # Use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo to build optimized binary.
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Contributing
Code Style
You would want to setup your editor to make use of the .clang-format file located in the root of this repository and the eslint/prettier rules in web/package.json.
If for some reason you are unwilling or unable to do so, there is a shell script which you can use: ./code_style.sh
Translations
See [language translations](docs/Translating.md).
Sponsors
macOS CI builds are running on a M1 Mac Mini provided by MacStadium Free code signing on Windows provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation