First let us install every dependency Transmission needs and for which there is a usable version in the Debian repository.
# apt-get install ca-certificates libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev pkg-config build-essential checkinstall libevent Traditionally, libevent is also needed, but Transmission depends on version numbers only rarely found in Debian. So let us start by compiling libevent in a directory of your choice. Browse to http://libevent.org/ and get the latest version.
$ cd /var/tmp $ wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz $ tar xzf libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz $ cd libevent-2.0.18-stable $ ./configure && make Now, we would really like to be able to upgrade to a new version in the future, so there should be a mechanism other than the classic „make install“ which keeps count of what went where (and ideally this is not a piece of paper). So we build a very simple Debian package from the compiled files and install it. Basically you just enter the following command and hit return until a nice text message tells you that all is done.
# checkinstall
3. Transmission Now we need to prepare Transmission for compilation by configuring the source, the same as with libevent.
$ cd /var/tmp $ wget http://download-origin.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.51.tar.bz2 $ tar xjf transmission-2.51.tar.bz2 $ cd transmission-2.51 $ ./configure –disable-nls –disable-gtk $ make && checkinstall
cat > /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: transmission-daemon # Required-Start: networking # Required-Stop: networking # Default-Start: 2 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start the transmission BitTorrent daemon client. ### END INIT INFO
# Original Author: Lennart A. JÃŒtte, based on Rob Howell's script # Modified by Maarten Van Coile & others (on IRC)
# Do NOT „set -e“
# # —– CONFIGURATION —– # # For the default location Transmission uses, visit: # http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/ConfigFiles # For a guide on how set the preferences, visit: # http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles # For the available environement variables, visit: # http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EnvironmentVariables # # The name of the user that should run Transmission. # It's RECOMENDED to run Transmission in it's own user, # by default, this is set to 'transmission'. # For the sake of security you shouldn't set a password # on this user USERNAME=transmission
# —– *ADVANCED* CONFIGURATION —– # Only change these options if you know what you are doing! # # The folder where Transmission stores the config & web files. # ONLY change this you have it at a non-default location #TRANSMISSION_HOME=„/var/config/transmission-daemon“ #TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME=„/usr/share/transmission/web“ # # The arguments passed on to transmission-daemon. # ONLY change this you need to, otherwise use the # settings file as per above. #TRANSMISSION_ARGS=„“
# —– END OF CONFIGURATION —– # # PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script. PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin DESC=„bittorrent client“ NAME=transmission-daemon DAEMON=$(which $NAME) PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# Exit if the package is not installed [ -x „$DAEMON“ ] || exit 0
# Read configuration variable file if it is present [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables [ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
# # Function that starts the daemon/service #
do_start() {
# Export the configuration/web directory, if set if [ -n "$TRANSMISSION_HOME" ]; then export TRANSMISSION_HOME fi if [ -n "$TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME" ]; then export TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME fi
# Return # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started start-stop-daemon --chuid $USERNAME --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile \ --exec $DAEMON --background --test -- -f $TRANSMISSION_ARGS > /dev/null \ || return 1 start-stop-daemon --chuid $USERNAME --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile \ --exec $DAEMON --background -- -f $TRANSMISSION_ARGS \ || return 2
}
# # Function that stops the daemon/service # do_stop() {
# Return # 0 if daemon has been stopped # 1 if daemon was already stopped # 2 if daemon could not be stopped # other if a failure occurred start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/10/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON RETVAL="$?" [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript. # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be # needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to # sleep for some time.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit. rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}
case „$1“ in
start) echo "Starting $DESC" "$NAME..." do_start case "$?" in 0|1) echo " Starting $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;; *) echo " Starting $DESC $NAME failed" ;; esac ;; stop) echo "Stopping $DESC $NAME..." do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) echo " Stopping $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;; *) echo " Stopping $DESC $NAME failed" ;; esac ;; restart|force-reload) # # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the # 'force-reload' alias # echo "Restarting $DESC $NAME..." do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) do_start case "$?" in 0|1) echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;; *) echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME failed: couldn't start $NAME" ;; esac ;; *) echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME failed: couldn't stop $NAME" ;; esac ;; *) echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 3 ;;
esac
chmod +x /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon chown root:root /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
adduser –disabled-password transmission