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Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). It is Ubuntu's default BitTorrent client since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

Transmission has been Ubuntu's default BitTorrent client since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (Source)

Transmission is licensed under the GNU GPL and MIT licenses. In addition to Ubuntu, it is also available to use on several major Linux and BSD distributions, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

More information on Transmission can be found on Wikipedia or its official website while a guide to usage can be found on the Ubuntu Community Help Wiki.

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How can I make Firefox open magnet-links in Transmission?

I can't find out how to make Firefox open magnet-links in Transmission. There is no option to make it the standard program for magnet-links in its properties, and as I am not experienced with the filesystem so I can't add it as the standard program…
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How can I ensure transmission traffic uses a VPN?

I'd like to ensure that transmission only sends/receives traffic when the server it runs on is connected to a VPN. I found this question which is similar but I don't want to force all traffic through the VPN and I haven't been able to find a good…
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What is "web seed"?

I'm downloading a file with Transmission. It shows a connection to a web seed. See the below screenshot: What is that "web seed", shown in the picture (which kind of seeders?)? Is it safe?
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How to configure Chrome to open magnet URI's with Deluge?

After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) from 10.10, I can no longer open magnet (torrent) links in Chromium, and set deluge to automatically open and accept the URL. (Edit: currently ".torrent" files are not a problem, but magnet URL's, e.g. of the…
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Permission denied when downloading with transmission daemon

I installed Xubuntu and transmission daemon, set the download path to my home/user/TV shows, and get a permission denied when trying to download torrents through the transmission. I tried chmod -r 777 on this folder without success. Please…
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How to change the default permissions of files created by transmission-daemon?

I have a machine running Ubuntu 12.04 server with transmission-daemon running to handle bitorrents. Everything works fine except the transmission-daemon creates files as the user/group, debian-transmission, and with 744 file permissions. I would…
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Where does Transmission save my torrent files?

I have a lot of torrents and currently I use Transmission as my torrent client. However, there is a problem — After I change the folder name (which is important for me to organize my music folder), Transmission stops recognizing the files even…
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Transmission webui problem - Conflict 409

I am running the latest stable version of Transmission (version 2.31 from the Transmission ppa). Any time I try to log in to the web user interface, I get hit with this: 409: Conflict Your request had an invalid session-id header. To fix this,…
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Removing Transmission Bit torrent client

Simply want to remove this client, don't really like it. Can't figure out what packages it's installed as, tried both transmission and transmission-daemon, the first not being anything and the second states it's not installed. Running ubuntu 13.04,…
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Transmission-daemon keeps resetting

i have been trying to configure transmission-daemon so i can connect using the webui avaliable at http://server.ip-address:9091 , but i just get a message telling me that i should either disable the ip address whitelist or add my current ip to it. I…
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How to use proxy for Transmission?

I have heard that Proxy Support in Trasmission has been removed as of version 2.12. Is it possible to use proxy by any other method?
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Transmission daemon over OpenVPN

I have recently acquired a BeagleBone Black, onto which I've installed Ubuntu using this method. It has all worked so far. I want to use my BeagleBone as a torrent box, but I don't want to do it directly over my Internet connection (I don't think…
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Scheduled download by transmission during nightly hours? (downloading just at a specified period of a day)

I want to limit transmission to work at 02:00 AM untill 08:00. How?
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Transmission says port is closed but seeding is happening

I'm using Transmission right now. The Transmission's test of the port says: port is closed. But there is seeding activity (around 160KB/s). I re-checked the port with an online site. It says closed too. How is that possible?? I forgot to add that…
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Why are my torrents not downloading?

I am using transmission-daemon and controlling it through the webgui. Currently I have two torrents from separate trackers that are on 0B of OB status. I am using transmission. On one torrent at last announce it says "got 50 peers" the other "got 48…
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