qBittorrent setup for Debian

Because there is no official ppa of qBittorrent for debian, so we use a third party service - qbittorrent-nox-static to compile qb.

Install

Download script

wget -qO ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh https://git.io/qbstatic
chmod +x ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh
# pre
sudo ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh
# build
~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh all
# install
sudo ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh install

Configure

Systemd service

Reference at here

# create a user
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent.service

Config:

[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent-nox service
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=exec
User=qbtuser
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/qbittorrent-nox
Restart=on-failure
SyslogIdentifier=qbittorrent-nox

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After any changes to the services reload using this command.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Now you can enable the service

sudo systemctl enable --now qbittorrent.service

Now you can use these commands

systemctl stop qbittorrent
systemctl start qbittorrent
systemctl restart qbittorrent
systemctl status qbittorrent

Reverse Proxy (Optional)

Use Caddy to access qBittorrent with domain. This should install Caddy2 Setup for Debian

Config:

example.com {
   push
   reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080
}

Now, you can access your qBittorrent web UI at: example.com, the default username and password is : admin/adminadmin

Note, you should change the default username/password

Config

Download directory, /data/Downloads
Settings, auto add China https://trackerslist.com/best.txt , US https://ngosang.github.io/trackerslist/trackers_best.txt
Open announce_to_all_trackers at settings.

Install Search Plugin Jackett

Jackett is a server program that provides support for more than 400 torrent sites (public and private).