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 [*]. By default, all 3 components are built. Specific parts can be disabled by setting 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). [*] 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previous version of transmission: It's no longer possible to build on Slackware 14.2 as of transmission-3.0.0, due to outdated g++ and libstdc++.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.