Qbittorrent: the free alternative to µtorrent

The qBittorrent project aims to provide a free software alternative to µTorrent (uTorrent). Its development originated in March 2006, at the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard in France, by Christophe Dumez. Currently, it has the collaboration of developers around the world. And it has been administered by Sledgehammer, from Greece, since June 2013. If you are more interested in learning about this project, we invite you to continue reading qBittorrent: The free alternative to µTorrent.

qBittorrent: The free alternative to µTorrent

What is qBittorrent?

It is a cross-platform P2P client for the BitTorrent network. For those who are not very expert, BitTorrent is a protocol for exchanging files on the Internet that uses the peer-to-peer mode. qBittorrent is written in C ++ language, it uses the Boost libraries, as it is a native application, it also includes the use of the Qt library and for network connections it uses the libtorrent-rasterbar library. Additionally, it has a search function, which is worth it in the Python installation. Therefore it is an optional functionality for those users who do not want to install it. And last but not least, it is free and open source.

qBittorent exclusive features for Linux

qBittorrent includes a variety of functionalities. Below, we list the most relevant:

• Provides an improved uTorrent-like User Interface. Has a built-in extensible search engine. Performs simultaneous search on the most famous BitTorrent search sites. Allows you to specify search requests by category (eg, books, music, movies). Compatible with all Bittorrent extensions. Remote control through a Web user interface. All its graphical interface is made in Ajax, providing an incredible user experience. Advanced control of followers, companions and torrents. Queue torrents and prioritization. Torrent content selection and prioritization. Supports UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding. Available in approximately 41 languages ​​(Unicode support). Offers Torrent authoring tools. Advanced RSS support with download filters (includes regular expressions).Has a bandwidth scheduler.Includes IP filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible).IPv6 compatible.

Download and Installation

qBittorrent is available for various Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, among others. All these can be obtained by accessing the download section of the official site of the application, you choose one and it will show you its installation method, according to the selected distribution.

This time I will leave you the installation steps for Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: qbittorrent-team / qbittorrent-stable

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

Now we only have to take full advantage of the application. You can also check our Tutorials section, where you will surely find information and super useful tools.