ctorrent command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ctorrent command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ctorrent: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ctorrent: command not found

Solutions to ctorrent: command not found

How To Fix ctorrent: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ctorrent is provided by ctorrent package.

ctorrent is:

This application is written in the C++ language and doesn’t require any graphical component, such as an X server. Original ctorrent’s upstream has stopped its development and now it’s kept updated with new releases/bug fixes by a new developer. It’s built as a console program and it can be even used remotely in a machine that provides outside ssh access. Other main features are:

  • Support for large files (>2GB) and large torrents (>255 files).
  • Strategic selection of pieces to request for download.
  • Continuous queueing of download requests, tuned based on latency and throughput for each peer.
  • Improved download performance, including parallel requests in initial and endgame modes.
  • Improved bandwidth regulation.
  • Improved compatibility with other peers.
  • Performance optimization and bug fixes.
  • An interface for monitoring and managing multiple clients.
  • Dynamic cache allocation and management, including prefetch.

More information about the original but discontinued ctorrent’s project can be found by browsing the following website: http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ctorrent

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ctorrent.

sudo apt -y install ctorrent

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ctorrent

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ctorrent command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.