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[[Category: RaspberryPi]]

This is a guide for setting up a torrent server on the Raspberry Pi using [http://deluge-torrent.org/ Deluge].

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=== Basic Installation ===
Note. When doing this installation I found it best to do it from the account you want the deluge-daemon to be run from.

Install the deluge daemon and web interface. At the time of writing this installs deluge 1.2.3:

<pre>
sudo apt-get install deluged
sudo apt-get install deluge-web
</pre>

Follow the instructions at http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/UserGuide/InitScript/Ubuntu to setup the start scripts and torrent logging.
You can run the deluge-daemon using a user already on the Raspberry Pi or create a new user. Don't forget to edit the /etc/default/deluge-daemon file to point to the user account you want to use.

Note: If you create the startup scripts on a Windows machine and then copy them onto the Raspberry PI you will have to run it through dos2unix to get the text file into a linux format. If you don't do this the script won't run (spent a good couple of hours puzzling over this one)

To install dos2unix:

<pre>
sudo apt-get install dos2unix
</pre>

Make sure that both scripts are owned by root and have the correct permissions:
<pre>
sudo chown root:root /etc/default/deluge-daemon
sudo chmod 644 /etc/default/deluge-daemon

sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/deluge-daemon
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/deluge-daemon
</pre>

=== Thin Client Setup ===
Deluge can be setup so that you can control the deluge daemon from a number of different clients. This can be done either by a Web Interface or the GTK UI.

Note: Both the client and the server need to be similar versions, i.e. both 1.2.x or both 1.3.x.

==== GTK UI ====
===== Server Setup =====
Add a user and password to the authentication file (this does not have to be your server's user/pass)/
<pre>
echo "username:password:level" >> ~/.config/deluge/auth
</pre>

=== Web Interface ===
Open up a web browser and go to the following address (need to change the IP address to match your RPi)

192.168.1.4:8112
The password is deluge.

You can configure deluge via the web interface or by editing the config file in ~/.config/deluge. You will need to setup the file locations for completed torrents and also a directory to place torrents for the server to download. 

=== To Do List ===

*IP Filters / Blocker
*Execute Plugin (Will allow you to run commands on certain events) - could be useful.
*RSS Reader