Flint2 installing transmission

Routers
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I am buying a second flint2 to play and attempt to get transmission installed and running.

Is there a guide as im new to ssh etc and have read there is a web page gui style page that you can add torrent/magnet type links to etc.

Kind regards

Fred

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Try this tutorial:

However OpenWrt doesn't have a 'proper' permission system, which means especially on torrent clients on OpwnWrt it is tricky to setup.

To me doing this under a x86 box is much easier under linux, and with docker even more since you only have to update/re-create the containers, docker containers are immutable so you only have to specify PGID and PUID, and the binded mounts for configuration and downloads once, then never have look back, you can use watchtower to automaticly update them for you too.

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Thankyou for the info

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It works really poorly on the router, because Transmission for the router is outdated, doesn’t have much support. Furthermore, you will see far less seeds compared to a desktop version.

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Thanks that explains why there is not info on getting it going.

Will keep the new 2nd flint2 as a spare unit.

Cheers

Fred

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I’ve running Transmission 4.0.6 for quite some time and it works flawlessly, if you know how to proceed. Using it since v4.6.6-op24

Tutorial for install:

  1. install the needed packages

opkg update
opkg install transmission-daemon transmission-web luci-app-transmission

  1. check dependencies for transmission-daemon

ldd /usr/bin/transmission-daemon

  1. when following errors apear:
Error relocating /usr/bin/transmission-daemon: evthread_set_condition_callbacks: symbol not found

Error relocating /usr/bin/transmission-daemon: evthread_set_id_callback: symbol not found

Error relocating /usr/bin/transmission-daemon: evthread_set_lock_callbacks: symbol not found

then use

opkg install libevent2-extra7
rm -rf /usr/lib/libevent-2.1.so.7
ln -s /usr/lib/libevent_extra-2.1.so.7.0.1 /usr/lib/libevent-2.1.so.7

and check dependencies for transmission-daemon again

ldd /usr/bin/transmission-daemon

  1. after this, you may want to edit init-script for transmission

nano /etc/init.d/transmission

enter "sleep 60" before "START=99" to start transmission later

Samba has to mount the drive first

  1. follow the steps under Adding a torrent client to a router with OpenWrt – Dariusz Więckiewicz 🇬🇧

  2. if using dnscrypt-proxy you should create the allowed-names.txt to and uncomment it in dnscrypt-proxy.toml. Otherwise it is possible that some trackers get blocked.

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When my new flint2 arrives I will try.

Ive printed out your information.

Most helpful.

Thanks

Fred