How to Install qBittorrent 4.0.4 on Linux Mint 18.3

To Install qBittorrent 4.0.4 on Linux Mint 18.3

qBittorrent is a simple yet very fast open source BitTorrent client for Linux operating system. It is often called as an alternative to uTorrent because it comes with uTorrent like user interface, configuration settings, integrated search engine and much more.If you are the one looking for the best open source BitTorrent client, then qBitttorent could be a better choice than any other BitTorrent client available online.

Features

• uTorrent like user interface
• Integrated search engine for searching torrent files over other Torrent search sites
• qBittorrent Supports BitTorrent extensions such as Magnet links, Distributed hash table, peer exchange protocol, local peer discovery.
• Has inbuilt web interface similar to regular GUI
• Sequential downloading
• Create and publish torrents
• Schedule and limit the Bandwidth
• Supports IPv6 protocol

Install qBittorrent 4.0.4

Lets first start with updating the system repository.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Get:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release [24.2 kB]        
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release.gpg [819 B]  
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Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [591 kB]                           
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [547 kB]                            
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [239 kB]                           
Fetched 5,249 kB in 15s (337 kB/s)                                                                                
Reading package lists... Done

And then add the qbittorrent repository package using the following command.

linuxhelp user # add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
You are about to add the following PPA:
 Packages for the stable series of qBittorrent
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~qbittorrent-team/+archive/ubuntu/qbittorrent-stable
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gpg: requesting key 7CA69FC4 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 7CA69FC4: public key " Launchpad PPA for qBittorrent Team"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

Now update the system repo package again.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                   
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                         
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Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [2,420 B]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,380 B]
Fetched 25.7 kB in 2s (12.6 kB/s) 
Reading package lists... Done

Now run the following command to install qbittorrent.

linuxhelp user # apt-get install qbittorrent -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up libtorrent-rasterbar9 (1.1.6+git20180215.01c41fadcf+patched-configure-1ppa1~xenial1) ...
Setting up qbittorrent (4.0.4.99~201802160102-6283-d2f3d1e~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ..

The qBitTorrent is installed and you can open it by searching it from the menu.

After opening the application accept the terms and conditions and proceed further.

To add the new torrent file click on open URL.

Add the URL of the torrent file and your download begins.

With this, the method to install qBittorrent 4.0.4 on Linux Mint 18.3 comes to an end.