Installing qBitTorrent on Ubuntu Server

qBitTorrent July 02, 2021

qBittorrent-nox includes only the Web UI http://localhost:8080

Installation instructions

sudo:

  • add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
  • apt install qbittorrent-nox
  • adduser --system --group qbittorrent-nox
  • sudo adduser your-username qbittorrent-nox
  • sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent-nox.service
[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent Command Line Client
After=network.target

[Service]
#Do not change to "simple"
Type=forking
User=qbittorrent-nox
Group=qbittorrent-nox
UMask=007
ExecStart=/usr/bin/qbittorrent-nox -d --webui-port=8080
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Service operations

  • sudo systemctl start qbittorrent-nox
  • sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  • sudo systemctl enable qbittorrent-nox
  • systemctl status qbittorrent-nox

Accessing it after install

  • 192.168.0.102:8080
  • Username is admin. Default password is adminadmin.

A few things missing

  1. You need to install the search plugins that matched your needs and are legal in your country Open the Search Tab, and click on Search Plugins
  2. If you customized the Downloads folder, it does not persist when saved from the UI Open the config file /home/qbittorrent-nox/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf and save it the [Preferences] section ` Downloads\SavePath=/media/torrents/ `
  3. Restart the service for the changes to take place systemctl restart qbittorrent-nox

Reference

Overall instructions for installing qBitTorrent on Ubuntu Server can be followed from this [link] (https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-qbittorrent-ubuntu-18-04-desktop-server)