Deluge contains the common features to BitTorrent clients such as Protocol Encryption, DHT, Local Peer Discovery (LSD), Peer Exchange (PEX), UPnP, NAT-PMP, Proxy support, Web seeds, global and per-torrent speed limits. As Deluge heavily utilises the libtorrent library it has a comprehensive list of the features provided.
Client-Server
Deluge has been designed to run as both a normal standalone desktop application and as a client-server. In Thinclient mode a Deluge daemon handles all the BitTorrent activity and is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces connecting remotely from any other platform.
User Interfaces
There are three main user interfaces (UIs):
How to run
The following daemons will auto-start on install:
deluge-lukewh.deluged-service
deluge-lukewh.deluge-web-service
Daemons run as root and the configuration is saved to /var/snap/deluge-lukewh/common/.config/deluge
The easiest way I've found to share downloads with users is to create a directory in your home folder and mount it to /mnt with mount --bind [src_dir] /mnt/[dir_name] you can then add both root and your user to a group that has permissions in that folder. You may need to mkdir /mnt/[dir_name].
For the snap to see this mount you will need to run snap connect deluge-lukewh:removable-media manually.
If you don't want to use the daemon you can stop and disable them with:
snap service stop --disable deluge-lukewh.deluged-service
snap service stop --disable deluge-lukewh.deluge-web-service
You can then run deluge-lukewh.deluged and deluge-lukewh.deluge-web. These will be run with the default behaviour of deluge (fork).
The configuration is then stored in $HOME/snap/deluge-lukewh/common/.config/deluge.
$HOME/snap/deluge-lukewh/common/Downloads is also created to store your downloads.
Next steps
Once both deluged and deluge-web have been run you can point your browser to http://%5Bip-address%5D:8112
The first thing to do (after changing the default password) is change the download directory to either /home/$USER/snaps/deluge-lukewh/common/Downloads or /mnt/[dir_name] in the preferences, depending on whether you are running the snap as a user or daemon.
Happy torrenting!
Snap source: https://github.com/Lukewh/deluge-snap
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install snapd
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sudo snap install deluge-lukewh
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