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transmission (bittorrent client)
Transmission is a lightweight open source BitTorrent client, providing
-useful functionality without feature bloat. It consists of a daemon, a
-GTK+ client, and CLI client [*].
+useful functionality without feature bloat. It consists of a daemon
+and GTK+, Qt, and CLI clients.
-By default, all 3 components are built. Specific parts can be disabled
-by setting one or more environment variables:
+By default, everything but the Qt client is built. It can be enabled
+by exporting QT=yes in the environment. The other parts can be
+disabled by exporting one or more environment variables:
GTK=no
CLI=no
DAEMON=no
-At least one component must be enabled (so all 3 set to "no" won't work).
+Hint: if you use QT=yes, you probably also want GTK=no.
-[*] If you're wondering about the Qt client that was in the previous
- version of transmission: It's no longer possible to build on
- Slackware 14.2 as of transmission-3.0.0, due to outdated g++ and
- libstdc++. If you don't mind using an older version of transmission
- (2.94), you can install transmission-qt4 to get a Qt GUI.
+At least one component must be enabled (all 4 set to "no" won't work).