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52 lines
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## About
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Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. It comes in several flavors:
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* A native Mac OS X GUI application
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* GTK+ and Qt GUI applications for Linux, BSD, etc.
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* A headless daemon for servers and routers
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* A web UI for remote controlling any of the above
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Visit https://transmissionbt.com/ for more information.
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## Building
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Transmission has an Xcode project file (Transmission.xcodeproj) for building in Xcode.
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For a more detailed description, and dependencies, visit: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/wiki
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### Building a Transmission release from the command line
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$ tar xf transmission-2.92.tar.xz
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$ cd transmission-2.92
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$ mkdir build
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$ cmake ..
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
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### Building Transmission from the nightly builds
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Download a tarball from https://build.transmissionbt.com/job/trunk-linux/ and follow the steps from the previous section.
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If you're new to building programs from source code, this is typically easier than building from Git.
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### Building Transmission from Git (first time)
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$ git clone https://github.com/transmission/transmission Transmission
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$ cd Transmission
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$ git submodule update --init
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$ mkdir build
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$ cd build
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$ cmake ..
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
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### Building Transmission from Git (updating)
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$ cd Transmission/build
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$ make clean
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$ git pull --rebase --prune
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$ git submodule update
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$ cmake ..
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
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