qbittorrent-nox-static

Ubuntu 22 ARM

install

sudo adduser qbittorrent
su qbittorrent

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/qbittorrent-nox https://github.com/userdocs/qbittorrent-nox-static/releases/latest/download/aarch64-qbittorrent-nox
chmod 700 ~/bin/qbittorrent-nox
~/bin/qbittorrent-nox

1. The default account and password is displayed in terminal.
2. Visit <your_host>:8080 and login.
3. qBittorrent WebUI → Settings
   • WebUI
     • Authentication → Change Username, Password.
     • (Optional) Web User Interface → Change IP address to 0.0.0.0, change port to 8090.
     • (Optional) Bypass authentication for clients on localhost (On).
     • (Optional) Bypass authentication for clients in whilelisted IP subnets → ...
   • Speed → Global Rate Limits → For example, you can set a lower speed here, liked 100 KiB/s upload and 10000 KiB/s download.
   • Connection → Connections Limits → Set lesser number here.
   • Advanced → Customize application instance name Steam.

su <sudo_user>
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent.service

[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent-nox service
Documentation=man:qbittorrent-nox(1)
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=exec
User=qbittorrent
ExecStart=/home/qbittorrent/bin/qbittorrent-nox
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl enable --now qbittorrent
systemctl status qbittorrent

Download to mounted disk

sudo mkdir /mnt/<mount_name>/qbittorrent
sudo groupadd mountusers
sudo usermod -aG mountusers qbittorrent
## Get the uid
id -u $USER
## Get the gid
getent group mountusers
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
sudo vim /etc/fstab

# Add on bottom. I used NTFS disk here.
UUID=<disk_uuid> /mnt/<mount_name> ntfs-3g default,uid=<uid>,gid=<gid>,umask=0000, 0 0

# sudo systemctl deamon-reload
# sudo mount -a
sudo reboot

qBittorrent WebUI → Settings → Downloads → Saving Management → Default Save Path → /mnt/<mount_name>/qbittorrent.。

Share downloaded files via Samba

sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf

[qbittorrent]
comment = qbittorrent
path = /mnt/<mount_name>/share/qbittorrent
guest ok = no
read only = no
browsable = yes
writeable = yes
force user = qbittorrent

sudo systemctl restart smbd

reference

• Create a seedbox on Raspberry Pi using the latest version of qbittorrent

cross-reference

• mount.md
• flood.md