579732 – >net-p2p/transmission-2.90: transmission-cli needs a use flag

Bug 579732 - >net-p2p/transmission-2.90: transmission-cli needs a use flag

Summary: >net-p2p/transmission-2.90: transmission-cli needs a use flag

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Mike Gilbert

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Reported:	2016-04-12 12:40 UTC by cryptopsy
Modified:	2016-04-12 15:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description cryptopsy 2016-04-12 12:40:59 UTC

transmission-cli is long deprecated and starting with 2.90 is not being built by default. To get it, pass --enable-cli to ./configure . There is no use flags which produced it for me (I was expecting perhaps USE=lightweight

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2016-04-12 14:50:31 UTC

Why do you need it? Can you migrate to transmission-daemon + transmission-remote instead?

Comment 2 cryptopsy 2016-04-12 15:02:19 UTC

I am just using it to download torrent from the command line. Can transmission-remote do that? That's all i need it for.

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2016-04-12 15:15:10 UTC

Yep, you can definitely use it for that. Here are some quick instructions for that:

Start transmission-daemon:

floppym@naomi ~ % transmission-daemon

Add your torrent using transmission-remote:

floppym@naomi ~ % transmission-remote --add foo.torrent

Check status:

floppym@naomi ~ % transmission-remote --list

Shut down transmission-daemon:

floppym@naomi ~ % transmission-remote --exit


If you want a prettier console interface, you might try using net-p2p/transmission-remote-cli.