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transmission (bittorrent client)

Transmission is a lightweight open source BitTorrent client, providing
useful functionality without feature bloat. It consists of a daemon
and GTK+, Qt, and CLI clients.

By default, everything but the Qt client is built. It can be enabled
by exporting QT=yes in the environment. The other parts can be
disabled by exporting one or more environment variables:

GTK=no
CLI=no
DAEMON=no

Hint: if you use QT=yes, you probably also want GTK=no.

At least one component must be enabled (all 4 set to "no" won't work).

Note: transmission-gtk *must* be run from within a D-Bus session. If
you use the standard /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.* to start X, or if you
log in with a graphical login manager, you're already using D-Bus.
Unfortunately, if it can't connect to D-Bus, transmission-gtk will
freeze (not even closing the window will work). If you dislike D-Bus
and prefer to avoid it, use transmission-qt instead.