Because there is no official ppa of qBittorrent for debian, so we use a third party service - qbittorrent-nox-static to compile qb.
Install๐
- Download script
wget -qO ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh https://git.io/qbstatic
chmod +x ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh
# pre
sudo ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh
# build
~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh all
# install
sudo ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh install
Configure๐
Read more at qbittorrent-nox configure
vim ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf
With follow config:
[LegalNotice]
Accepted=true
[Preferences]
WebUI\Port=8080
WebUI\HostHeaderValidation=false
Systemd service๐
Reference at here
# create a user
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent.service
Config:
[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent-nox service
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target
[Service]
Type=exec
User=qbtuser
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/qbittorrent-nox
Restart=on-failure
SyslogIdentifier=qbittorrent-nox
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
After any changes to the services reload using this command.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Now you can enable the service
sudo systemctl enable --now qbittorrent.service
Now you can use these commands
systemctl stop qbittorrent
systemctl start qbittorrent
systemctl restart qbittorrent
systemctl status qbittorrent
Reverse Proxy (Optional)๐
Use Caddy to access qBittorrent with domain. This should install Caddy2 Setup for Debian
Config:
example.com {
push
reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080
}
Now, you can access your qBittorrent web UI at: example.com, the default username and password is : admin/adminadmin
Note, you should change the default username/password
Config๐
- Download directory,
/data/Downloads - Settings, auto add China https://trackerslist.com/best.txt , US https://ngosang.github.io/trackerslist/trackers_best.txt
- Open
announce_to_all_trackersat settings.
Install Search Plugin Jackett๐
Jackett is a server program that provides support for more than 400 torrent sites (public and private).
Install Jackett๐
See Jackett Setup
Install Jackett Plugin๐
See also at here
Open qBittorrent Web UI, In the Search tab, click the Search pluginsโฆ button (bottom-right) -> add new plugin -> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/master/nova3/engines/jackett.py
Change API key settings, You can get it from Jackett UI
vim ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/nova3/engines/jackett.json