How To Install qBittorrent 4.0.4 on Ubuntu 18.04

To Install qBittorrent 4.0.4 on Ubuntu 18.04

qBittorrent is a simple yet very fast open source BitTorrent client for Linux operating system. It is often called as an alternative to uTorrent because it comes with uTorrent like user interface, configuration settings, integrated search engine and much more. If you are the one looking for the best open source BitTorrent client, then qBitttorent could be a better choice than any other BitTorrent client available online.

Installing qBittorrent

First, make sure you update your system by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done  

Once it is done, you need to add the repository.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
Packages for the stable series of qBittorrent
More info: https://launchpad.net/~qbittorrent-team/+archive/ubuntu/qbittorrent-stable
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpjj4i8p2r/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpjj4i8p2r/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
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Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [2,540 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [1,380 B]
Fetched 22.4 kB in 2s (11.9 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

And then, you have to update the system again.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Once it is done, you shall install qbittorrent by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install qbittorrent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up libqt5dbus5:amd64 (5.9.4+dfsg-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libqt5network5:amd64 (5.9.4+dfsg-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libqt5xml5:amd64 (5.9.4+dfsg-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libqt5gui5:amd64 (5.9.4+dfsg-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up qt5-gtk-platformtheme:amd64 (5.9.4+dfsg-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libqt5widgets5:amd64 (5.9.4+dfsg-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up qbittorrent (4.0.4.99~201802160102-6283-d2f3d1e~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Setting up libqt5svg5:amd64 (5.9.4-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-0ubuntu2) ...

Now that qBitorrent has been installed, open Linux mint menu and type qbittorrent on a menu.

You need to agree on the terms and conditions to proceed further.

And then open the qbittorrent application.

You can then check the version.

With this, the method to install qBitorrent 4.04 on Ubuntu 18.04.