Top 5 Torrent Clients for Linux
UPDATE: The article was moved (and updated). For the new location of the list please click here
Here is a list with the most used torrent clients for Linux. While a few other exists and are listed elsewhere, I think the software presented here represents the big players, and a wide range of interfaces and features. I’m just sharing, I don’t profess to be an expert. Anyway, I hope this list will be of help to you in choosing a better torrent client.
Azureus (now Vuze)
The most future rich torrent client for Linux, but being based on Java, is also a memory and performance hogger.
“Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users” read more…(dead link)
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October 5, 2008 at 11:06 pm
uTorrent on linux
http://lessthanhightech.weebly.com/utorrent-on-linux-seedbox.html
Schwasskin
January 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Azureus works very well. Get the Cubit plugin for search as well while at it for easy lookups.
arrrrrr
October 6, 2008 at 12:36 am
rtorrent is incredible, I used it over ssh and its very easy and feature-rich for a console app
BTW, Deluge has plugins, my favorite being the bandwidth scheduling, pretty much like utorrent’s, but seems to allow 2 speeds…
meh
October 6, 2008 at 1:40 am
I personally run a copy of TorrentFlux off my home server. it does an awesome job and it always there, once it’s done I just read the stuff off over NFS. I’ve also quite liked BitTornado.
ultra
October 6, 2008 at 1:52 am
No btdownloadcurses.py? For shame, bruh
Tofusensei
October 6, 2008 at 3:04 am
No btdownloadcurses.py? What kind of lunix geek are you?
Tofusensei
October 6, 2008 at 3:05 am
Good list. I think you’ve forgotten about Torrentflux and torrentflux-b4rt, though. Especially on linux’s strength as a server, these two clients can be invaluable.
lukemcr
October 6, 2008 at 4:05 am
Hey, why do you have pictures of Deluge next to Azureus and Transmission?
Eric
October 6, 2008 at 6:46 am
Some of the screenshots are old. Ktorrent now has a KDE 4 interface, and Vuze has a dark interface, with a web browser built in. I wouldn’t recommend it.
aronzak
October 6, 2008 at 8:05 am
Azureus screenshot shows Deluge. Transmission screenshot shows Deluge.
Ovidiu C.
October 6, 2008 at 8:21 am
Deluge has served me well for quite some time now. Didn’t like transmission, couldn’t choose the files I didn’t want to download. Azureus is kind of unstable and eats up loads of memory. Really want to try out rtorrent. Thanks for a great list.
chestyle
October 6, 2008 at 10:28 am
You can choose what files to download in transmission you just have to right click the download.
v0ltag3
May 24, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Dude,
Transmission has Deluge’s screenshot.
Otherwise, nice summary
kotnik
October 6, 2008 at 11:12 am
I’m using BitTornado, specifically because it has a console “curses” mode which makes it much easier to run over a remote SSH login session.
Still, I’ll be checking out Deluge. Thanks for the reviews.
Bob Robertson
October 6, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Torrentflux-b4rt
http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/
Its more gooder
sam
October 6, 2008 at 12:29 pm
First of all, sorry for the image error. Now it’s fixed.
@meh:
Yeo, that is why I choose rtorrent too.
@ultra, lukemcr and sam:
torrentflux needs apache, php and mysql, that’s why I didn’t include it on the list. I thought that, a regular user wont install apache&co in order to use torrentflux. Anyway, for a server torrentflux is the best choice. That’s why I will make an update with torrentflux.
@tofusensei:
I consider rtorrent as being a better alternative than btdownloadcurses. Of course, I may be subjective.
@chestyle:
You can choose the files you want to download in Transmission. If you are comfortable with the console, you’ll love rtorrent
@Bob Robertson:
I never used BitTornado, but I did used Deluge and I liked, it’s somehow like utorrent.
Regards,
Marius
nongeekboy
October 6, 2008 at 1:38 pm
My favorite is KTorrent. Never have used the others.
Binny V A
October 6, 2008 at 2:26 pm
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October 6, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Nice summary. I’ve used all of the mentioned clients (and a couple more). Today I only use the two that work the best in my opinion. KTorent for local downloads (the new version 3.1 especially rocks) and rTorrent on my remote server where I mostly share Linux distros and various other stuff.
Andrej Novak
October 6, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I am for a long time a huge fan of Azureus. However I begin to find the latest (Vuze) versions too cluttered and full of unnecessary options. If this goes on I would consider using Deluge.
Mitko
October 7, 2008 at 7:52 am
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October 8, 2008 at 5:08 am
where is qbittorrent ? :/
desss
October 8, 2008 at 5:10 am
Azureus is feature rich but crahes occasionaly(plugins?), and eats alot of system.
Ktorent reasonable features, and very stable.
Ktorrent is more useful when run by excuting as:
nnice -n 10 ktorrent %i %m -caption “%c” %u
for lower CPU usage/more as a backgound activity.
NB nice -n 0 is default. Never run a program as n 10,
as this assumes n is preceeded by a Plus, and will domonate your CPU, until
your system is slows to a crash.
Linux user
October 16, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Sorry about last instruction.
Should be:
nice -n 10 ktorrent %i %m -caption “%c” %u
(not with extra n)
Linux user
October 16, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Very useful tip! Thank you alot.
nongeekboy
October 17, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I was a big fan of ktorrent but found that transmission serves my torrenting needs perfectly. Lightweight and very fast. Nice list.
golfswingdigest
October 19, 2008 at 10:40 pm
thank you, great post
kisho
October 27, 2008 at 2:44 am
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November 1, 2008 at 11:02 am
Transmission? What ?
iMhatimi
January 5, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Wait, where the hell is Transmission?
Zeeded
January 27, 2009 at 6:49 am
@Zeeded:
I have moved my blog; you can find the full version of the article at http://linuxnongeek.com/2008/10/05/top-5-torrent-clients-for-linux/ Transmission it’s listed 5th.
nongeekboy
January 27, 2009 at 10:52 am
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August 10, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Azureus used to be pretty awesome.
Vuze blows though. I don’t know what the hell they did or what the project’s goal is now, but it certainly isn’t a bittorrent client.
Joe
August 30, 2009 at 9:22 pm
unfurtenutely i installed it but had a some trojan for control of my pc.
i don’t like it.
pary
October 6, 2009 at 1:40 am
why does to title say top 5 when obviously there’s only one client listed
jani
December 18, 2009 at 2:46 pm
There is a link at the end of the fragment. Try it…
nongeekboy
December 21, 2009 at 6:06 am
Hi,
Good article. As per my view Azureus is best.
Rahul
March 26, 2010 at 8:39 am
Transmission could be reluctantly satisfactory if it had the ability to automatically add additional trackers from a .torrent file with the same name downloaded from a different site. As it is, its a real pain to try to get all the trackers from all the different sites. They have to added one at a time. But the user interface for Transmissions is really bad.
I’m new to Linux and I’m looking for a torrent client that is as small, fast, light, and feature rich as uTorrent was for Windows.
btw, I’ve been using computers since 1982, so I can perfectly handle the command line, but that is also the reason I wish to avoid it as much as possible, unless I’m missing the point of the advancement to a GUI. lol.
80063r
March 28, 2010 at 9:21 pm
what list all u mentioned was crappy ram eating vuze :-/
lys
June 9, 2010 at 5:34 am
thank you, great post
Fbml kod
July 22, 2010 at 8:00 am
hi,
i have newly installed ubuntu on my laptop.
i am having difficulty installing Vuse and would be grateful if someone could help.
these are the instructions for installation:
REQUIREMENTS:
Azureus requires Sun Java 1.5.x or newer to run.
JRE 1.6 (6.0 series) is highly recommended.
http://java.sun.com
RUNNING:
1. Extract the contents of this .tar.bz2 file.
2. Change to the ‘azureus’ directory where the files were extracted.
3. Start Azureus by running the script named ‘azureus’; ex. “./azureus”
NOTE:
If you have the Java JRE installed somewhere unusual (or not in your PATH),
use the JAVA_PROGRAM_DIR option in the script.
…………………………………..
i have no clue yet as i learning this OS.
samo
August 20, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Why don’t you try skdownloader.. It has a nice installer for linux as well.
It is as powerful as any other torrent client out there with a nice looking GUI and lots of themes to choose from. Also there is a browser integration feature which enables a “download with skdownloader” in browser right click menu. If this is used on a torrent link, skdownloader will download the torrent file by itself and automatically start downloading using the torrent file….
http://www.toolsbysk.com/skdownloader
Jack
November 26, 2010 at 5:29 am
I will have a look. Thanks for the tip.
nongeekboy
November 26, 2010 at 8:29 am
nice list…Azureus is best.
Rahul
March 18, 2011 at 11:40 am