Installing Transmission daemon on Ubuntu

I wanted to install the transmission torrent daemon on my new HTPC server so I can upload a torrent and go to sleep without having to leave my laptop on. Or thinking about starting transmission when my computer (re)boots. So here’s how I installed transmission.

aptitude install transmission
wget http://www.vanutsteen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/transmission-daemon -O /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
chmod +x /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
adduser --home /dev/null --shell /bin/false --no-create-home --disabled-login transmission
mkdir /etc/transmission
chown transmission:transmission -R /etc/transmission
update-rc.d transmission-daemon defaults

And then make sure your “/etc/default/transmission-daemon” looks something like:

TRANSMISSION_HOME=/etc/transmission

# The folder where Transmission stores downloads
TORRENTFOLDER=/media/sda11/downloads

# The port Transmission uses to connect to other peers
PORT=54318

# The name of the user that should run Transmission
USERNAME=transmission

# Login credentials for the Web- and the RPC-interface
REMOTE_USER=admin
REMOTE_PASS=password

You can not visit the daemon on: http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/

Here’s a nice screenshot: