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Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:39 am**

I've installed rtorrent on my Raspberry Pi model B+ with Raspbian 7. I can successfully download torrents from private trackers. However, I can't download any public torrents, not even the official Raspbian image!

Anyone have any insight on fixing rtorrent to work better on a Raspberry Pi?

My ideal settings would be 1) Store torrents in ~/Downloads and 2) Seed torrents forever. To that end, I have written https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blo ... torrent.rc, placed in ~/.

I'm using rtorrent 0.9.2 on Raspbian 7, with a Belkin AC750 Dual-Band Wireless Router.

Update:

For some public torrents, there's no error message, just no peer connections ever.

For the Raspbian image torrent, I get a specific error message:

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*  2014-12-24-wheezy-raspbian.zip
*              0.0 /  960.5 MB Rate:   0.0 /   0.0 KB Uploaded:     0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [   R: 0.0
* Tracker: [Object operator [peers] could not find element]

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2015 8:33 pm**

Update:

I was able to compile libtorrent, but rtorrent is just impossible to compile.

Someone managed to post a Debian package for rtorrent 0.9.4, https://github.com/mcandre/xbian-package-rtorrent-0.9.4. But even using this, rtorrent presents the same dumb error message for public torrents, and never connects to any peers. And for some reason, it deprecates a lot of the old configuration settings.

I was finally able to connect to peers and (quickly!) download torrents by installing and configuring transmission-daemon according to https://wiki.debian.org/BitTorrent/Transmission.

`sudo apt-get --purge autoremove rtorrent` for sure.

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