Transmission 1.x on Ubuntu 7.10

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

For some reason Ubuntu 7.10 has an ancient version of Transmission. Version 0.74 or somesuch. Unfortunately, that version of Transmission contained some bugs so it’s blocked by certain bittorrent trackers. In order to install a more recent version:

You can download a more recent version from the gutsy backports package pool.

• Uninstall transmission:
  sudo aptitude purge transmission transmission-gtk
• Download transmission-common 1.04
• Download transmission-gtk 1.04
• Install the packages:
  sudo dpkg -i "transmission-common_1.04-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_all.deb"
  sudo dpkg -i "transmission-gtk_1.04-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb"

And you’ll have a more recent version of Transmission.