How to install Web Torrent Desktop in Ubuntu

To install Web Torrent Desktop in Ubuntu

Web Torrent is a free, open source streaming torrent application. With WebTorrent Desktop, you can watch video from the Internet, listen to music from Creative Commons and audiobooks from Librivox.It is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Installimg Web Torrent Desktop

The first thing you ought to do before starting with the installation process is to download its installation package.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# wget https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.18.0/webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb
--2017-06-15 14:01:33--  https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.18.0/webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
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webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb        100%[============================================================================================> ]  48.87M   231KB/s    in 2m 37s 
2017-06-15 14:04:13 (320 KB/s) - ‘ webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb’  saved [51241820/51241820]

Once the package is downloaded, install it with the help of the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# dpkg -i webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package webtorrent-desktop.
(Reading database ... 205942 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking webtorrent-desktop (0.18.0-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of webtorrent-desktop:
 webtorrent-desktop depends on libnss3  however:
  Package libnss3:amd64 is not configured yet.
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Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 webtorrent-desktop

When the installation process happens, a few dependency errors arise. Rectify those errors with the help of the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
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Setting up webtorrent-desktop (0.18.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 (3.2.6-3ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-79-generic
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu10) ...

Now the dependency error is solved and the application has been installed. Open the application by invoking the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# webtorrent-desktop

Drop a torrent file or paste a magnet link to start the downloading process.

You can create a new torrent file or open a torrent file from the File Menu.

You can also configure the preferences.

That was all. The installation of Web torrent was so simple.