How to install the latest Deluge BitTorrent Client on Ubuntu 16.04/16.10. Install Deluge BitTorrent Client in Ubuntu, using PPA. Deluge is a fully-featured cross-platform BitTorrent client. Deluge contains the common features to BitTorrent clients such as Protocol Encryption, DHT, Local Peer Discovery (LSD), Peer Exchange (PEX), UPnP, NAT-PMP, Proxy support, Web seeds, global and per-torrent speed limits.
Deluge has been designed to run as both a normal standalone desktop application and as a client-server. In Thinclient mode a Deluge daemon handles all the BitTorrent activity and is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces connecting remotely from any other platform.
Deluge 1.3.13
Deluge 1.3.13 is the latest release of the BitTorrent client. Deluge 1.3.13 now includes libtorrent 1.0.9 for all platforms. Other changes and fixes are:
- New command-line option to restict selected config key to read-only.
- Allow use of uppercase log level to match UIs.
- Fixed HTTPS negotiating incorrect cipher.
- Fixed the broken Options context menu.
- Fixed the hostlist config file not being created.
- Fixed plugin’s js code not loading when using the WebUI plugin.
- Fixed plugin lockup with empty url.
- Fixed the popup to show the actual count of files finished.
- Fixed issue with SMTP port entry not updating in GTKUI.
- Fixed installing plugin from a non-ascii directory.
- Error’d torrents no longer display a progress percentage.
- Fixed the ‘Added’ column showing the wrong date.
- Prevent the user from changing tracker selection when editing trackers.
- Fixed showing the wrong connected status with hostname in the Connection Manager.
- Fixed the progress column to sort by progress and state correctly.
- Fixed incorrect Move Completed folder shown in Options tab.
- Sorting for name column is now case insensitive.
- Reduce height of Add Torrent Dialog to help with smaller screeen resoltuions.
Install Deluge BitTorrent Client
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Deluge BitTorrent client on Ubuntu Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deluge-team/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install deluge
Once installed, open Deluge BitTorrent client from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
For whatever reason, you wish to remove and uninstall Deluge, run the commands given below to purge the PPA and remove Deluge BitTorrent client from Ubuntu Systems.
sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:deluge-team/ppa