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I am on Ubuntu 16.04, and was wondering if there is a way to use a P2P file sharing program like Bit Torrent?

I have tried Transmission with no luck, and then installed qBittorrent again with no results.

The torrent does not seem to move and I get the following:

udp://open.demonii.com:1337   Not Working
udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969   Not Working
udp://zer0day.ch:1337   Not Working
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969   Not Working
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969   Not Working

Error

Any troubleshooting help is appreciated.

Thanks.

edwinksl
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A quick and easy way is to use Transmission:

  1. Click the Ubuntu icon in the upper left corner of the screen
  2. Type "Transmission" (something like "torrent" would work as well)
  3. Click the "Transmission BitTorrent Client" icon

Transmission BitTorrent Client in dash

Chai T. Rex
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  • Ok I am doing that with a torrent right now but it doesn't appear to be downloading. It's been about 5 minutes. –  Dec 24 '16 at 23:16
  • @zzgooloo might be an issue with the torrent itself. How many seeders are on it? I would try a different torrent this doesn't appear to be Ubuntu related – kalenpw Dec 24 '16 at 23:36
  • I tried a few other torrents and none of them seem to start downloading. It reads Downloading metadata from 0 peers (0% done) There are many seeders for this over 2000. Any ideas what I can do? –  Dec 24 '16 at 23:52
  • Does [this Ubuntu torrent](http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent) work? – Chai T. Rex Dec 25 '16 at 00:02
  • No I waited about 5 minutes to make sure and same result. Any ideas? Maybe some setting options need to be tweaked? –  Dec 25 '16 at 00:16
  • Your Internet provider might have a firewall that blocks BitTorrent in particular, whitelists only certain ports (BitTorrent tends to use high port numbers), or blocks UDP. You can try another BitTorrent client like Deluge (`sudo apt install deluge`) to see if that works. If both fail, your Internet provider is probably blocking BitTorrent in some way. – Chai T. Rex Dec 25 '16 at 00:32
  • Thanks @ChaiT.Rex any way you can tell me or send me a link to help out with unblocking the ports by my ISP? This shouldn't be the issue however, as I've had the same ISP for ages, was just on Win10 before. –  Dec 25 '16 at 00:58
  • How can I check which ports are being used by Transmission and whether or not they are blocked. –  Dec 25 '16 at 01:18
  • You can run `sudo netstat -pan | fgrep transmission` to see which ports are used. – Chai T. Rex Dec 25 '16 at 01:20
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I use qBittorrent. It's no frills fast and easy, very similar to utorrent for Windows. You can from "GNOME Software". Type qBittorrent and install, or open a terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

then:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install qbittorrent

Once installed, you can start it from Unity Dash or application menu.

Dave
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