Installing Transmission on a Synology NAS?

[oraguru]

Hi all

I don't know where to post my request/question, hope you can help me.

I'm using Transmission since a year on my iMac and I'm really happy with it, it's really great! I bought a Synology CS-407 with 4TB, on that station there is a torrent sw, but I don't like that, I would like to have transmission on it with all it's nice features... and I would like to 'relieve' my iMac of the whole downloading job.

I'm an IT guy so I should be able to install one of those .pkg's I think, if I know more or less what to do. Here my questions :

- is there a basic 'how to' somewhere to understand the concept of loading transmission as a .pkg's on a NAS Server (are there some keywords to look for?)
- where do I find the software ?
- I read that there is a deamon but there is a webinterface to it too, where can I find this ?
- some FAQ or helps around ?

With those information I should be able to install it.

Thanks for your help
G

[rb07]

I don't have a Synology but a HP MediaVault, the steps should be similar...

Take a look here http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DS101/HomePage and here http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Packages, but don't just jump in. My experience is that I had to tweak the optware installation, starting is easy, you just run a script, but in my case optware set the /opt directory into the flash disk, so I had to change it to the real hard disk (after filling the flash installing a few things). The needed change is in /etc/init.d/optware.rc, line 5 which says REAL_OPT_DIR.

After that you can use ipkg which is a script, "ipkg list | grep transmission" should show you the available transmission version (they have 1.42 and 1.50 at the moment), then "ipkg install ..." and take a look (and configure) /opt/etc/init.d/S??transmission.

You can go a different route, compiling transmission yourself. Nevertheless ipkg could be useful (for downloading the compiler for instance); but don't trust those packages too much, I've found a lot of bugs in them.

[oraguru]

hey rb07

thanks a lot, I'll try to find all the stuff you described and install it.

Thanks

G

[rb07]

I forgot a few details:

After changing optware.rc you have to reboot or unmount /opt and mount it again.

Another detail, the transmission package doesn't leave a /opt/etc/init.d script, so take a look at the article(s) on the Wiki about headless transmission: http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/HeadlessUsage ; I just adapted my Gentoo scripts which are in an old page of the Wiki http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/HeadlessUsageGentoo (yeah, shameless plug).

I also forgot to finish my last reply by saying you can find answers to your other question on the Wiki.

[rb07]

Actually I oversimplified... when you change the optware.rc you have to do several things:

• Create the real directory; optware's script created /share/.optware and then mounted /opt on it, that was wrong with the MediaVault, so I created /share/1000/.optware;
• Copy whatever optware's script left on their directory to yours;
• Now you can reboot to make the change to the new directory;
• Or, as I said, unmout /opt (which will only work if nothing is using it) and remount with the parameters used in the script.

I hope I didn't left anything out... I'm getting tired of correcting myself

[hughcharlesparker]

Late though this is, I'll post it in case it's useful to someone. The page you need is here:

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.ph ... utch_HowTo