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QBittorrent is a bittorrent client programmed in C / Qt that uses libtorrent (sometimes called libtorrent-rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg. It aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there. QBittorrent is fast, stable and provides unicode support as well as many features. QBittorrent is a free and open source torrent client that helps users download content off the internet. It is one of the very few torrent clients that offers a minimalist and ad-free user. Ubuntu packages. QBittorrent is now available in official Ubuntu repositories since v9.04 'Jaunty'. More up-to-date packages are published on our stable and unstable PPAs. The stable PPA supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (only the libtorrent-rasterbar package), 16.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS. The unstable PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS.

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Public Key for PGP Signing

Starting from v3.3.4 all source tarballs and binaries are signed.

The key currently used is: 4096R/5B7CC9A2
Fingerprint: D8F3DA77AAC6741053599C136E4A2D025B7CC9A2
You can also download it from here

Previously the following key was used to sign the v3.3.4 source tarballs and v3.3.4 Windows installer only: 4096R/520EC6F6
Fingerprint: F4A5FD201B117B1C2AB590E2A1ACCAE4520EC6F6

Windows 7 / 8 / 10

Current stable version: qBittorrent v4.3.0.1

Download link: 32-bit & 64-bit installers / PGP signature (FossHub)
_{Mirror link: 32-bit installer / PGP signature (SourceForge)}
_{Mirror link: 64-bit installer / PGP signature (SourceForge)}

Checksum	SHA2-256
32-bit installer	`ae0c531cc8f868a7c11abd5e25c19a4f3e7562255ae0bbf79d72d6029e8bf3db`
64-bit installer	`bb28f60f33d0ed0acb4c7f665077f8531e40649d2d0cf3c3d1043627cf99c480`
Library	Version
libtorrent-rasterbar	1.2.10+gitc2f001a63b
Qt	5.15.1
Boost	1.74.0

High Sierra / Mojave / Catalina

Current stable version: qBittorrent v4.3.0
May work on older macOS versions. If not, recompile with older Qt version.

Download link: DMG / PGP signature (FossHub)
_{Mirror link: DMG / PGP signature (SourceForge)}

Checksum	SHA2-256
DMG	`61f70ff9cff748a3f6c02a88d4680fcaceff5d5d1d4e0e2e89380c7f60d8f227`
Library	Version
libtorrent-rasterbar	1.2.10+git3d48e7d056
Qt	5.15.1
Boost	1.73.0

Source Tarball

Current version: qBittorrent v4.3.0.1

Download link: TAR.GZ / PGP signature (SourceForge)
Download link: TAR.XZ / PGP signature (SourceForge)

Compile instructions over here.

Checksum	SHA2-256
TAR.GZ	`fd9a2fbaa1491149a95cd79366e6728fb3fabafb768e51d1748730f2023cafe4`
TAR.XZ	`30a4bf23e92accf93bb840c96518358a4da836427713f0cc13db4a3f9a612220`
Dependency	Recommended version
libtorrent-rasterbar	1.2 branch latest release
Qt	Latest stable release
Boost	Latest stable release
OpenSSL	1.1 branch latest release
zlib	Latest stable release
Python (optional, runtime only)	Versions later than 3.3.0

Other Binary Packages

Select operating system:

Ubuntu packages

qBittorrent is now available in official Ubuntu repositories since v9.04 'Jaunty'.

More up-to-date packages are published on our stable and unstable PPAs.
The stable PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (only the libtorrent-rasterbar package), 18.04 LTS, 18.10, 19.10 and 20.04 LTS.
The unstable PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 19.04, 19.10 and 20.04 LTS.

Quick instructions

To use these PPAs please use the following command and make sure your version is supported:

# qBittorrent Stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
# or qBittorrent Unstable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-unstable

Then install qBittorrent by doing this:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

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Debian packages

qBittorrent and libtorrent-rasterbar are now officially included in Debian. Packages are maintained by Cristian Greco. See this page for more information.

Mandriva Linux packages

qBittorrent is currently officially included in Mandriva Cooker. You can find more information here.

Mageia packages

qBittorrent is currently packaged in the Mageia official repositories. It is packaged by Ahmad Samir. To install it, make sure the online repositories are configured correctly then install it either:

As root from terminal: 'urpmi qbittorrent' OR
Using rpmdrake (aka 'Install & remove software')

Gentoo ebuilds

qBittorrent is officially available in portage. You can install it easily on your system using emerge command. These ebuilds are maintained by Mikle Kolyada. See this page for more information.

OpenSuse packages

qBittorrent has been in the OpenSuse official repository since v11.3.
One-click install here.

Fedora packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged on Fedora. RPM packages are maintained by Leigh Scott.

See this page for more information.

Slackware scripts

qBittorrent is available for Slackware through slackbuilds.org. The slackbuild script is maintained by David Woodfall. See this page for more information.

Eric Hameleers is also maintaining binary packages for slackware. Those are available there.

ArchLinux packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged on ArchLinux. To install, simply type the following commands: Package information here.
For development, you can get PKGBUILD from Arch User Repository (AUR) and build it yourself:
AUR (non-official) information here.

Alt Linux packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged on Alt Linux. These packages are maintained by Alexey Morsov. Packages are available here. To install, simply type the following commands:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

AgiliaLinux packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged on AgiliaLinux. Packages are available here. To install, simply type the following command:

blackPanther OS packages

qBittorrent is officially shipped on blackPanther OS CD as the default Bittorrent client. RPM packages are available here.

These packages are maintained by Charles Barcza.

FreeBSD packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged for FreeBSD.
More information about the port can he found here.
To install qBittorrent, you should issue the following commands:

export PACKAGESITE='ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/Latest/'
pkg_add -r qbittorrent

Haiku port

qBittorrent is available in HaikuDepot.

You can download it from here.

Pardus packages

qBittorrent is officially available on Pardus via the contrib repository. These packages are maintained by H. İbrahim Güngör. Packages are available here.

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To install, simply type the following command:

#Ensure the contrib repo is present on your system:
sudo pisi ar contrib http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib-2009/pisi-index.xml.bz2
#Enable the contrib repo if present but disabled:
sudo pisi er contrib
#Install qBittorrent:
sudo pisi it qbittorrent

Best Open Source Bittorrent Client

Free Open Source Torrent Client Windows

qBittorrent is available on eComStation (OS/2) via this download page.

This package is maintained by Silvan Scherrer.

Old Release Archive

The following is a list of notable software for running a BitTorrent tracker.

Tracker	Programming Language	License	IPv4	IPv6	Operating System Support	Description
MLDonkey^[1]	OCaml	GPL	Yes	Windows, OS X, Unix-like, Morph OS	Has a built-in tracker and announcement service
MonoTorrent^[2]	C#	MIT	Yes	Windows, Mac OS, Unix-like	Uses Mono or .NET Core for cross-platform support (.NET)
Opentracker^[3]	C	Beerware	Yes	Yes (IPv4 and IPv6 have separate binaries and processes that do not share any information between them. If a client communicates to the tracker over IPv6, it will only receive IPv6 addresses in the response.)	Unix-like (source code only)	Uses libowfat,^[4] performs well even on embedded hardware. Only requirement is a POSIX compliant OS. Supports only a compact peer list.
PeerTracker^[5]	PHP	GPL	Yes	Web application	Extremely lightweight and efficient BitTorrent tracker. Supports SQLite3, and MySQL for storage.
μTorrent^[6]	C++	Freeware	Yes	Windows, OS X, Linux, Android	Does not have a list of hosted torrents.
qBittorrent^[7]	C++	GPLv2	Yes	Windows, OS X, Unix-like, OS/2	Lightweight. Supports DHT, PEX, announcements via UDP. Does not have a web interface or list of hosted torrents; it is not designed for secure or large-scale application.
Vuze^[8]	Java	Disputed	Yes	Windows, Mac OS, Linux	Vuze (formerly Azureus) has a built in tracker.
XBT Tracker^[9]^[10]	C++	GPL	Yes	Windows, Linux	Uses MySQL for data storage, lightweight tracker
Bitstorm^[11]	PHP	GPL	Yes	Windows, Linux, OS X	A lightweight tracker that does not require any external database support.

References[edit]

^'BT-default tracker'. sourceforge.net.
^http://github.com/mono/monotorrent
^erdgeist. 'opentracker'. erdgeist.org.
^'libowfat'. fefe.de.
^'latest known svn revision of the trigunflame peertracker, which is a lightweight PHP/SQL BitTorrent Tracker: JonnyJD/peertracker'. March 21, 2019 – via GitHub.
^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved May 8, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^'qBittorrent official website'. sourceforge.net.
^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2009-07-02. Retrieved 2009-05-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^'XBT Tracker'. sourceforge.net.
^'xbt - High-performance BitTorrent Tracker - Google Project Hosting'. google.com.
^https://github.com/petcap/bitstorm

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