How to install and use rTorrent properly on CentOS

[pinksongbird]

I already have a dedicated server and was wanting to try out seedbox with a portion of it. Can I create an account specifically for my seedbox? My server is CentOS and I'm also using cpanel.

[fstokebanget]

yes, just use adduser followed by the new user name on the command line

[yozshura]

Just as a FYI, you can use wget on every single tracker out there, to get your torrents. Don't forget to use cookies though

I tested this and it's not quite true, it depends on the tracker.

[Magnum]

This is great tutorial.Thank you very much!

[SolarisWind]

First, I'd like to say thank you for this wonderful guide. Unfortunately, I've had this vectoral server for 20 days and I still have not been able to set it up. Can someone help? It would be really appreciated. I'm stumped on the 3rd step

Here's a copy paste (very sorry if it's long):
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx tmp]# tar -zxvf pkg-config-0.22.tar.gz
pkg-config-0.22/
pkg-config-0.22/README
pkg-config-0.22/Makefile.in
pkg-config-0.22/configure
pkg-config-0.22/AUTHORS
pkg-config-0.22/COPYING
pkg-config-0.22/ChangeLog
pkg-config-0.22/INSTALL
pkg-config-0.22/Makefile.am
pkg-config-0.22/NEWS
pkg-config-0.22/acconfig.h
pkg-config-0.22/aclocal.m4
pkg-config-0.22/config.guess
pkg-config-0.22/config.h.in
pkg-config-0.22/config.sub
pkg-config-0.22/configure.in
pkg-config-0.22/depcomp
pkg-config-0.22/install-sh
pkg-config-0.22/ltmain.sh
pkg-config-0.22/missing
pkg-config-0.22/mkinstalldirs
pkg-config-0.22/pkg.h
pkg-config-0.22/pkg.c
pkg-config-0.22/partial-glib.h
pkg-config-0.22/partial-glib.c
pkg-config-0.22/parse.h
pkg-config-0.22/parse.c
pkg-config-0.22/main.c
pkg-config-0.22/findme.c
pkg-config-0.22/findme.h
pkg-config-0.22/popt.c
pkg-config-0.22/popt.h
pkg-config-0.22/poptconfig.c
pkg-config-0.22/popthelp.c
pkg-config-0.22/poptint.h
pkg-config-0.22/poptparse.c
pkg-config-0.22/pkg.m4
pkg-config-0.22/pkg-config.1
pkg-config-0.22/README.win32
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/docs/
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/docs/Makefile.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/docs/Makefile.am
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/docs/glib-config.1.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/docs/texinfo.tex
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/docs/glib.html
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/docs/glib_toc.html
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmodule.h
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/Makefile.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/AUTHORS
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/COPYING
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/ChangeLog
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/Makefile.am
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmoduleconf.h.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmodule.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/libgplugin_a.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/libgplugin_b.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/testgmodule.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmodule.def
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmodule-dl.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmodule-dld.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmodule-win32.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmodule/gmoduleconf.h.win32
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/README
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glib.h
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/Makefile.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/configure
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/AUTHORS
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/COPYING
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/ChangeLog
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/INSTALL
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/Makefile.am
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/NEWS
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/acconfig.h
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/aclocal.m4
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/config.guess
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/config.h.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/config.sub
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/configure.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/depcomp
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glib-config.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glib.spec.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/install-sh
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/ltconfig
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/ltmain.sh
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/missing
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/mkinstalldirs
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/garray.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gcache.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gcompletion.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gdataset.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gdate.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gerror.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/ghash.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/ghook.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/giochannel.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/giounix.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glist.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmain.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmem.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmessages.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gmutex.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gnode.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gprimes.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/grel.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gscanner.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gslist.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gstring.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gtimer.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gtree.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gutils.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/testgdate.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/testgdateparser.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/testglib.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glib.m4
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/acglib.m4
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/sanity_check
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/README.win32
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glib.def
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/makefile.msc.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/makefile.msc
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/giowin32.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glibconfig.h.win32.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/config.h.win32.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/Makefile.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/ChangeLog
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/Makefile.am
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/gthread.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/testgthread.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/gthread-posix.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/gthread-solaris.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/gthread-nspr.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/gthread-none.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/gthread/gthread.def
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/Makefile.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/Makefile.am
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/array-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/dirname-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/hash-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/list-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/node-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/relation-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/slist-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/strfunc-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/string-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/tree-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/type-test.c
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/makefile.msc
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/tests/makefile.msc.in
pkg-config-0.22/glib-1.2.8/glib.spec
pkg-config-0.22/check/
pkg-config-0.22/check/Makefile.in
pkg-config-0.22/check/Makefile.am
pkg-config-0.22/check/check-cflags
pkg-config-0.22/check/check-libs
pkg-config-0.22/check/check-define-variable
pkg-config-0.22/check/check-libs-private
pkg-config-0.22/check/check-requires-private
pkg-config-0.22/check/check-includedir
pkg-config-0.22/check/common
pkg-config-0.22/check/simple.pc
pkg-config-0.22/check/requires-test.pc
pkg-config-0.22/check/public-dep.pc
pkg-config-0.22/check/private-dep.pc
pkg-config-0.22/check/includedir.pc
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx tmp]# cd pkg-config-0.22
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx pkg-config-0.22]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx pkg-config-0.22]# config.log
-bash: config.log: command not found

I also tried the NAQ's guide but got stumped halfway through the guide and seems like no one knows the answer to my problem. I'd give my soul to be able to use this seedbox! I have the worst luck ever...
EDIT: Oops, I'm actually blocked on the "# make" step. I get this:
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx pkg-config-0.22]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx pkg-config-0.22]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
EDIT2: Oops again, forgot to mention that I'm using Windows Vista x64, with a Vectoral VF$Bandwidth, on CENTOS 4.4.

I also get errors with every installation files. I can download them fine but I get all sorts of errors...I feel bad.

[pierow]

Using windows vista on a centos system?!? Your problem is your missing gcc build libraries. Try yum -y install gcc

[SolarisWind]

What I meant was that my main pc has vista on it, and the server has CentOS 4.4.

Oh thank you thank you for the help!, the install gcc worked for me...but it's too soon to celebrate. I just got 2 other errors.

I was able to download and install these:
pkg-config
openSSL
libCurl

Ones that didn't work:
ncurses
libsigc++

I can't seem to install the other things after that. Here's a log of the errors...
This happens after I type "make" for ncurses (I chopped a lot of lines and only included the end, tell me if I should include more):
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/test'
cd misc && make DESTDIR="" all
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/misc'
WHICH_XTERM=xterm-new \
ticdir=/usr/share/terminfo \
/bin/sh ./gen_edit.sh >run_tic.sed
echo '** adjusting tabset paths'
** adjusting tabset paths
sed -f run_tic.sed ../misc/terminfo.src >terminfo.tmp
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/misc'
cd c++ && make DESTDIR="" all
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/c++'
cp ./etip.h.in etip.h
sh ./edit_cfg.sh ../include/ncurses_cfg.h etip.h
substituting autoconf'd values from ../include/ncurses_cfg.h into etip.h
... CPP_HAS_PARAM_INIT 0
... CPP_HAS_STATIC_CAST 0
... ETIP_NEEDS_MATH_EXCEPTION 0
... ETIP_NEEDS_MATH_H 0
... HAVE_BUILTIN_H 0
... HAVE_GPP_BUILTIN_H 0
... HAVE_GXX_BUILTIN_H 0
... HAVE_STRSTREAM_H 0
... HAVE_TYPEINFO 0
... HAVE_VALUES_H 0
... USE_STRSTREAM_VSCAN 0
... USE_STRSTREAM_VSCAN_CAST 0
cd ../objects; -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -c ../c++/cursesf.cc
/bin/sh: -I../c++: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [../objects/cursesf.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/c++'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx ncurses-5.6]#

I tried continuing with "make install" but it also ends up with an error.


This is with libsigc++:
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx libsigc++-2.0.17]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17'
Making all in sigc++
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/sigc++'
make all-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/sigc++'
source='signal.cc' object='signal.lo' libtool=yes \
DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/sh ../depcomp \
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -c -o signal.lo signal.cc
libtool: ignoring unknown tag CXX
mkdir .libs
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -c signal.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/signal.o
../libtool: line 1223: g++: command not found
make[3]: *** [signal.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/sigc++'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/sigc++'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg-config-0.22/openssl-0.9.8g/ncurses-5.6/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17/curl-7.16.4/libtorrent-0.11.9/ncurses-5.6/libsigc++-2.0.17'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@xx-xxx-xxx-xxx libsigc++-2.0.17]#


Sorry if I seem like a newbie but this is all gibberish to me.

[fsephie]

Thanks so much for the guide, but how would I go about setting up several instances of rTorrent on a single box?

[mdtczar]

nice tutorial, way better organized than my lil text file everytime i set up my new seedbox

[koalaBear]

I'm currently using uTorrent on wine, but would like to switch to rTorrent. The only thing holding me back is the lack of a labels feature, as I use 4 different trackers and would like to oversee them separately. I was thinking of just running 4 instances of rTorrent, do you think that would work?

Cheers,
koala