Transmission

Well, in the end, I ended up being able to do just a regular install. Damned if I know how exactly. After lots of apt-get install, apt-get remove, apt-get autoremove, etc. I got a clean install of 1.76 on the machine. Sorry that I don't have anything more conclusive to report. I guess my only advice ...

Excellent. That's what I expected, but I'd rather be sure than muck up the install and have to remove it and start again. I'll let you know how it goes after I try compiling.

Excellent, thanks. You've been more than helpful. I have one last question before I try building it myself. To run 1.75 or higher, is it required to be running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)? Looking at the "Official Packages" list linked from the download page ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords ...

Totally willing to try. Any advice for a first time compiler? It's a little bit daunting.

Alright, I believe I've successfully removed the old transmission. Now if we can only get an ARM build of 1.75 or higher...

root@Zeus:~# apt-get -f remove transmission transmission-common transmission-cli transmission-gtk transmission-daemon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...

No reason to have the GTK really. I just have it leftover from my first install. I grabbed the entire package because I'd rather have too much than have it not work. In your code samples, I omitted the references to GTK. OK, two errors of note...

root@Zeus:~# apt-get remove transmission-cli ...

Getting closer I think. I had to split the last command into two because of some errors. See below... (note: I'm logged in as root, so no need for sudo)
dpkg -i ~/transmission-common_1.75-0ubuntu2_all.deb
(Reading database ... 15442 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ...

Dont know what your issue is, but try this in your terminal


wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/t/transmission/transmission-common_1.75-0ubuntu2_all.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/transmission/transmission_1.75-0ubuntu2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i ~/transmission ...

mcclurec wrote:Should I changes sources.list to karmic? Do the karmic packages work on a jaunty install? I just don't want to break anything.

Anyone? Is it possible to use the Karmic Koala packages on the Jaunty Jackalope version?

Don't ask, there are three people win the world who understand how APT works, and nobody is quite sure who the third one is.

Ha! :) I tried editing sources.list back to jaunty instead of karmic and ran apt-get install transmission and got the following.
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...

I just tried changing the repositories to Karmic in my sources.list, ran "apt-get update" and then ran "apt-get upgrade transmission" but still no luck.

Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release.gpg [307B]
Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com jaunty ...

I'm running Jaunty.

I don't quite understand what you mean by that last sentence. Am I to check to see if "Software Sources" and "Backports" are enabled on my machine? What are those and where can I check?

As stated, I need some help upgrading transmission on my jaunty server. I originally followed the instructions from the "Ubuntu" thread in the Binaries forum ( http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5604 ... Also, I wasn't able to post to that thread. Is it locked?) to get up and ...

Has 1.74 been released to the launchpad server yet? I tried an apt-get upgrade transmission and it didn't do any updating. :?

It should be noted that I'm extremely new to linux and am running a headless server. Any help on upgrading would be appreciated. I follow the instructions in this thread ...