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Port details
rtorrent BitTorrent Client written in C++
0.16.0 net-p2p on this many watch lists=47 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.15.6Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: eduardo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2006-01-30 21:41:02
Last Update: 2025-09-05 23:11:24
Commit Hash: 4373d09
People watching this port, also watch:: libtorrent, screen, wget, nmap, curl
License: GPLv2 GPLv3
WWW:
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
Description:
Rtorrent is a ncurses BitTorrent Client written in C++ for *nix. Main Features are : * Use an URL or file path to add torrents at runtime * Stop/delete/resume torrents * Optionally loads/saves/deletes torrents automatically in a session directory * Safe fast resume support * Peer's download speed calculated from incoming HAVE messages * Peer download progress
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/rtorrent
  2. @sample /usr/local/etc/rtorrent/rtorrent.conf.sample
  3. /usr/local/share/rtorrent/lua/rtorrent.lua
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.0/catalog.mk
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.0/LICENSE
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.0/GPLv2
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.0/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • rtorrent
Dependency lines:
  • rtorrent>0:net-p2p/rtorrent
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-p2p/rtorrent
  • pkg install rtorrent
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: rtorrent
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1757102139 SHA256 (rtorrent-0.16.0.tar.gz) = fe8f8793f3bae8de157f567d9d89629dfd6fc21bc18d7db4537c4014a23dc1d9 SIZE (rtorrent-0.16.0.tar.gz) = 854573

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
rtorrent
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.15.60.16.00.9.80.15.60.16.0-0.9.8-
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.15.60.15.60.9.80.15.60.15.60.9.80.9.80.9.8
FreeBSD:14:latest0.15.60.16.00.9.80.15.60.16.00.9.8-0.9.8
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.15.60.15.6-0.15.60.15.60.9.80.9.80.9.8
FreeBSD:15:latest0.15.50.16.0n/a0.15.5n/a0.9.80.9.80.9.8
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/a---
FreeBSD:16:latest-0.16.0n/a-n/a---
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Library dependencies:
  1. libtorrent.so : net-p2p/libtorrent
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for rtorrent-0.16.0: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
net-p2p_rtorrent
USES:
compiler:c++17-lang ncurses pkgconfig
pkg-message:
For install:
An example configuration file for rtorrent has been installed in /usr/local/share/examples/rtorrent. Read it for more information on how to tweak rtorrent configuration.
Master Sites:
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  1. https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/download/v0.16.0/
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Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.5.3
12 Jul 2006 19:04:54
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flz search for other commits by this committer
Fix problem with getopt.

Reported by:    Charles Clark <cmc@stegosaur.us>
0.5.3
20 Jun 2006 12:14:43
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flz search for other commits by this committer
- Update rtorrent and rtorrent-devel to 0.5.3.
0.4.5
17 May 2006 11:26:56
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- Transform rtorrent into a master port.
- Add rtorrent-devel, the development version of rtorrent.
0.4.5
11 May 2006 22:49:56
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with N
0.4.5
21 Mar 2006 16:31:38
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Update to 0.4.5.

Reminded by:    Simon Olofsson <simon@olofsson.de>
0.4.3
23 Feb 2006 10:40:45
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ade search for other commits by this committer
Conversion to a single libtool environment.

Approved by:    portmgr (kris)
0.4.3
30 Jan 2006 21:36:28
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Populate newly create net-p2p category with these ports:

  ftp/jigdo
  net/amule1
  net/amule2
  net/apollon
  net/azureus
  net/bnbt
  net/btpeer
  net/btqueue
  net/cdonkey
  net/ctorrent
  net/dcd
  net/dclib
  net/dctc
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