The following linux distributions and their derivatives are supported at moment:

Note that is still quite possible that the application might run on other distros.

Only x64 (aka x86-64, aka AMD64), ARM and ARM64 platforms are currently supported.

It might be possible to run qBittorrent CLI on unsupported platforms using mono runtime and platform-agnostics packages.

Some packages must be installed before running qBittorrent CLI. Please, see the corresponding chapter for your distribution:

• Debian-based
  • Debian 9.x
  • Debian 10.x
  • Linux Mint 18
  • Linux Mint 19
  • Linux Mint 20
  • Ubuntu 16.04
  • Ubuntu 17.10
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Ubuntu 20.10
• Red Hat-based
  • CentOS 7
  • Fedora 26 or later
• SuSE-based
  • openSUSE Leap 15
  • openSUSE Leap 15

Run the following commands:

su -c 'apt install libssl1.1 libicu57'

Run the following commands:

su -c 'apt install libssl1.1 libicu63'

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.0.0 libicu55

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.1 libicu60

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.1 libicu66

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.0.0 libicu55

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.0.0 libicu57

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.1 libicu60

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.1 libicu66

Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.1 libicu67

Run the following commands:

su -c 'yum install openssl-libs libicu'

The required libraries are typically preinstalled, but you should run the following command to ensure they really are:

su -c 'dnf install openssl-libs libicu'

Run the following commands:

sudo zypper install libssl45 libicu

Run the following commands:

sudo zypper install libssl48 libicu

1. Download the qBittorrent CLI tar.gz-archive from the Releases page. The archive for Linux has the name qbt-linux-<platform>-<version>.tar.gz.

2. Create a folder qbt in /usr/local/lib directory and cd into it:

   sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/qbt && cd "$_"

   You may want to install qBittorrent CLI in another folder. For example, you can install it to ~/qbt if you want to do it without root permissions. In this case change the paths in this tutorial correspondingly.

3. Extract the archive to the newly created folder:

   sudo tar xvf /path/to/archive.tar.gz

4. Add execute permission to the file /usr/local/lib/qbt/qbt:

   sudo chmod +x qbt

5. Create a symlink /usr/bin/qbt pointing to file /usr/local/lib/qbt/qbt:

   sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/qbt/qbt /usr/bin/qbt

   Alternatively, you may put this symlink to any other folder in your PATH.

Run the following command:

qbt --help