Note: These instructions are an update of a previous post. I updated my instructions to include the download of the transmissionrpc plugin, and to include the cron job definition I use. These instructions apply to FlexGet 1.0r1377.
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading [...]
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Transmission-daemon does not automatically remove completed torrents. I created a script to do so, and I run it via a cron job (under my own user ID) on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server.
This script uses command line utility transmission-remote (which is installed when you install the transmission-daemon package) to check on the progress of [...]
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading TV episodes via BitTorrent, and doing it using RSS feeds and an automated process. That can’t possibly be true, but I figured that if other people do this, I should be able to figure out how, [...]
Note (10/04/2010): I updated these instructions as part of my media server rebuild project. The new version is clearer and provides a cleaner install.
This article explains how to install, configure, and run Transmission on a headless Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) server. Transmission, specifically transmission-daemon, is a BitTorrent client that can be accessed via a web [...]
