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ChimeraOS / chimeraos

A Steam Big Picture based couch gaming OS
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[package request] Please add transmission-cli to the base packages #877

Closed mdeguzis closed 8 months ago

mdeguzis commented 8 months ago

I don't think there is a base simple CLI-focused client to handle torrents. This package is super* small at around 5 MB

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/transmission-cli/

ChaosBlades commented 8 months ago

I get it, super small. But why? Deluge, qBittorrent, Transmission, and even Transmission Remote along with several other torrent clients are already on flathub. So what is the point in adding this? I would understand if no decent clients are on flathub but there are plenty on offer.

mdeguzis commented 8 months ago

It's extremely minimal and made for the CLI. Simple daemon with webui over local network with no bloated UI.

Transmission on Flathub does not include the CLI form what I could tell after trying to run it. The transmission remote Flatpak is just for viewing and does not have a daemon.

Welcome to be proven wrong. Install the Transmission Flatpaks and let me know how to enable/start the daemon so I can view the webui on any compute within the local network.

npaladin2000 commented 8 months ago

If that's the case, can't you just drop the transmission-cli binary in your home directory and run it from there? Seems to me that an actual CLI torrent solution is a fairly limited use case and not something a lot of people would be interested in.

mdeguzis commented 8 months ago

If that's the case, can't you just drop the transmission-cli binary in your home directory and run it from there? Seems to me that an actual CLI torrent solution is a fairly limited use case and not something a lot of people would be interested in.

Is the CLI inside the flatpak files? Nit home to check. Ideally, I just want the daemon ability built in so I don't have to launch the GUI really.

npaladin2000 commented 8 months ago

The CLI binary is available to download from https://transmissionbt.com/download , and you can set it up as a user-mode systemd service.