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ruTorrent

Step-by-step guide to installing and configuring ruTorrent with rTorrent on Gentoo Linux. Covers repository setup, themes, mediainfo and sox dependencies, and rtorrent.rc configuration

Clone ruTorrent Repository to htdocs Path`

git clone https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent /var/www/localhost/htdocs

Download 3rd party themes to ruTorent

git clone https://github.com/artyuum/3rd-party-ruTorrent-Themes
cd 3rd-party-ruTorrent-Themes
cp -r Agent34/ Agent46/ club-QuickBox/ FlatUI* MaterialDesign/ OblivionBlue/ themes

Install media-sound/sox and media-video/mediainfo

echo ">=media-libs/libmediainfo-22.09 curl mms" >> /etc/portage/package.use/mediainfo
echo "media-video/mediainfo curl mms" >> /etc/portage/package.use/mediainfo
echo "media-sound/sox alsa ao encode cflac id3tag mad ogg oss png \
pulseaudio static-libs twolame wavpack" >> /etc/portage/package.use/	sox	
emerge --ask media-sound/sox media-video/mediainfo

Install and Configure net-p2p/rtorrent"

echo "net-p2p/rtorrent xmlrpc" >> /etc/portage/package.use/rtorrent
emerge rtorrent

Install Mediainfo Package

echo "media-info/mediainfo -curl -mms -wxwidgets" >> /etc/portage/package/use
emerge mediainfo

Configure rtorrent.rc with ruTorrent

mkdir -p ~/downloads/.rtorrent_sessions
~/downloads/
/path/to/glftpd/site/incoming/__unsorted/

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