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Headless Transmission

install:

sudo apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon

stop it:

sudo service transmission-daemon stop

edit settings (see the example settings.json given below).

sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

add your user to group debian-transmission.

sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission user

either change permission of download folder to 777 or make its group debian-transmission.

sudo chgrp debian-transmission /downloadfolder

start it:

sudo service transmission-daemon start

open a web-browser and test it (substitute the right port number):

http://192.168.1.55:9092/

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important lines of settings.json:

{
    "download-dir": "/mnt/tarski/zdown", 
    "incomplete-dir": "/mnt/herschel/transmission/incomplete", 
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": true, 
    "peer-port": 6881,                                                                                                                                             
    "rpc-authentication-required": false, 
    "rpc-enabled": true, 
    "rpc-port": 9092, 
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*,192.168.0.*", 
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true, 
    "umask": 2, 
}

complete settings.json:

{
    "alt-speed-down": 200, 
    "alt-speed-enabled": true, 
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540, 
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127, 
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false, 
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020, 
    "alt-speed-up": 10, 
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0", 
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::", 
    "blocklist-enabled": false, 
    "blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist", 
    "cache-size-mb": 4, 
    "dht-enabled": true, 
    "download-dir": "/mnt/tarski/zdown", 
    "download-limit": 100, 
    "download-limit-enabled": 0, 
    "download-queue-enabled": true, 
    "download-queue-size": 10, 
    "encryption": 1, 
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30, 
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false, 
    "incomplete-dir": "/mnt/herschel/transmission/incomplete", 
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": true, 
    "lpd-enabled": false, 
    "max-peers-global": 200, 
    "message-level": 1,                                                                                                                                            
    "peer-congestion-algorithm": "",                                                                                                                               
    "peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,                                                                                                                                        
    "peer-limit-global": 400,                                                                                                                                      
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 50,                                                                                                                                  
    "peer-port": 6881,                                                                                                                                             
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,                                                                                                                                
    "peer-port-random-low": 49152,                                                                                                                                 
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,                                                                                                                            
    "peer-socket-tos": "default",                                                                                                                                  
    "pex-enabled": true,                                                                                                                                           
    "port-forwarding-enabled": false,                                                                                                                              
    "preallocation": 1,                                                                                                                                            
    "prefetch-enabled": 1,                                                                                                                                         
    "queue-stalled-enabled": false,                                                                                                                                
    "queue-stalled-minutes": 30,                                                                                                                                   
    "ratio-limit": 2, 
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false, 
    "rename-partial-files": true, 
    "rpc-authentication-required": false, 
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0", 
    "rpc-enabled": true, 
    "rpc-password": "{627dc923f550f990af3042a3bf87e31b45bb3aa6YOWt2W7K", 
    "rpc-port": 9092, 
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/", 
    "rpc-username": "", 
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*,192.168.0.*", 
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true, 
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true, 
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false, 
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "", 
    "seed-queue-enabled": true, 
    "seed-queue-size": 1, 
    "speed-limit-down": 350, 
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": true, 
    "speed-limit-up": 20, 
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true, 
    "start-added-torrents": true, 
    "trash-original-torrent-files": true, 
    "umask": 2, 
    "upload-limit": 100, 
    "upload-limit-enabled": 0, 
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14, 
    "utp-enabled": true
}