Creating torrents with transmission

[ambipur]

Hi Transmission fans!

I am using Transmission on Ubuntu Server 10.10 . I would like to know how to create torrents. I mean that I have seen after searching a bit that the Mac version of Transmission contains a "Create" button on its web interface. Unfortunately I haven't find such a button in the Linux version of transmission ??? Is there an easy way to create torrents? The MAc version looks like on the following link:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-tor ... nsmission/

Thanks a lot!

[Rolcol]

The GTK and Qt clients both have methods to create torrents. It sounds like you're using the daemon version. The daemon doesn't have the ability to create torrents but the 2.10+ source came with command line utilities to create and modify torrents. (transmission-create, transmission-show, transmission-edit). I don't know if those utilities have been packaged for Ubuntu in any way, however.

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rolcol@laptop:~/Desktop$ transmission-create -o trsource.torrent Transmission/
WARNING: no trackers specified
Creating torrent "trsource.torrent" ................................... done!