Application BitTorrent Not Appearing After Installation

Question

Just tried installing BitTorrent via CLI, but the application isn't appearing in the Dash and doesn't seem to want to run from Terminal, either.

I used sudo apt-cache search bittorrent to verify it was in the package list, then sudo apt-get install bittorrent, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, and finally sudo apt-get autoremove (just to be safe).

I checked Synaptic and sure enough, it has the little green square next to it. I'm at a bit of a loss, any clues on what gives? Could I be missing another package it needs to run or something along those lines? If so, how would I go about checking for that?

Answer 1

The executable is not actually named bittorrent:

andrew@corinth:~$ dpkg -L bittorrent | grep /bin
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/btlaunchmanycurses.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btlaunchmany.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btshowmetainfo.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btdownloadheadless.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btrename.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btreannounce.bittorrent
/usr/bin/bttrack.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btmakemetafile.bittorrent
/usr/bin/btcompletedir.bittorrent
andrew@corinth:~$ 

I see you are a Synaptic user so right click on the bittorrent green light and select Properties --> Installed Files and you will see the same in a gui:

The confusion is completely understandable though! If you are unsure of which particular executable to use perhaps try running something simple like:

btdownloadcurses http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.10/ubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent

This shows a very 'old school' torrenting window that is perhaps exactly what you are after: