How to Install the latest rtorrent and libtorrent in Ubuntu

rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client.

LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transfering directly from file pages to the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections it is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client.

Show non-free software Installed on your system Using vrms (Virtual Richard M. Stallman)

The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed.

Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of each of the installed non-free packages might cause moral issues for some in the Free Software community. This functionality is not yet included.

Install vrms in ubuntu

sudo apt-get install vrms

This will complete the installation at the time of installation you should see the following message

An invocation of vrms has been added to the set of cron jobs run on a monthly basis, so that you will get a periodic reminder of non-free packages which are installed on your system.

if you want to run manually use the following command

vrms

How to open bittorrent ports from the command line in Ubuntu

By default, ubuntu is totally locked and will not allow any incoming connections. To fix this use the following command

How to Find Ubuntu Version

There are times ubuntu users and admins want to find which version of ubuntu linux version is running on their machines.This is very useful for those who is helping their customers and they want to know which version they are running and if you took over new system admin job you want to know which version is running on your servers or desktops.