rtorrent command not found

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

Introduction

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

rtorrent: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rtorrent: command not found

Solutions to rtorrent: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rtorrent is provided by rtorrent package.

rtorrent is:

rtorrent is a BitTorrent client based on LibTorrent. It uses ncurses and aims to be a lean, yet powerful BitTorrent client, with features similar to the most complex graphical clients.

Since it is a terminal application, it can be used with the “screen”/“dtach” utility so that the user can conveniently logout from the system while keeping the file transfers active.

Some of the features of rtorrent include:

  • Use an URL or file path to add torrents at runtime
  • Stop/delete/resume torrents
  • Optionally loads/saves/deletes torrents automatically in a session directory
  • Safe fast resume support
  • Detailed information about peers and the torrent
  • Support for distributed hash tables (DHT)
  • Support for peer-exchange (PEX)
  • Support for initial seeding (Superseeding)

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

sudo apt-get -y install rtorrent

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

You can also use apt command to install rtorrent.

sudo apt -y install rtorrent

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

sudo aptitude install rtorrent

Summary

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