Setup Advanced Packages - fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli GitHub Wiki
qBittorrent CLI is a cross-platform application created using .Net Core 2.1/3.1, thus it can run on any platform .Net Core, .Net Framework or Mono supports.
There are three kinds of packages: installer packages, platform-specific packages and platform-agnostic packages.
Installer package are the standard installer packages used on the corresponding platforms:
- MSI on Windows
- DEB on Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and other Debian-based Linux distributions
- RPM on Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE
- PKG on macOS
Using installer packages is the recommended way to install stable versions of qBittorrent CLI on the supported platforms.
Platform-specific packages are plain zip or tar.gz archives containing binaries compiled to be used on the certain platforms without the need to install .Net Core runtime.
Using platform-specific packages is the recommended way to install prerelease versions of qBittorrent CLI or to install several version side by side.
The following platform-specific packages are provided at the moment:
| Package | OS | x86 | x64 | ARM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qbt-win-x86-version.zip | Windows 7 SP1 or later | ✓ | ✓ | |
| qbt-win-x64-version.zip | Windows 7 SP1 or later | ✓ | ||
| qbt-linux-x64-version.tar.gz | Linux | ✓ | ||
| qbt-linux-arm-version.tar.gz | Linux | ✓ | ||
| qbt-osx-x64-version.tar.gz | macOS 10.13 or later | ✓ |
Platform-specific packages must be manually unpacked and installed. Click the links in the table above to get the detailed installation instructions for the corresponding platform.
Platform-specific packages are plain zip or tar.gz archives containing binaries compiled to be used on any platform where .Net Core, .Net Framework or Mono runtime is available.
Platform-agnostic packages are much more lightweight themselves but required .Net runtime to be installed. You may want to use platform-agnostic packages on the platforms not supported by installer packages and platform-specific packages.
| Package | Required Runtime |
|---|---|
| qbt-netcore21-version.zip | .Net Core 2.1 or later |
| qbt-netcore21-version.tar.gz | .Net Core 2.1 or later |
| qbt-netcore31-version.zip | .Net Core 3.1 or later |
| qbt-netcore31-version.tar.gz | .Net Core 3.1 or later |
| qbt-netfx46-version.zip |
On Windows: .Net Framework 4.6 or later (included in Windows 10, available as a separate download for Windows 7 SP1 or later.) On Linux & Mac OS X: mono 5.4 or later |
Platform-specific packages must be manually unpacked and installed. Follow the link to get the detailed installation instructions.
Most users should use installer packages to install qBittorrent CLI as they provide easy to use and manage experience for the supported platforms.
You may consider using platform-specific packages in the following cases:
- You want to use prerelease version of qBittorrent CLI.
- You want to have several versions of qBittorrent CLI side by side.
- You want to install qBittorrent CLI only for the current user without administrative permissions.
In most cases you should prefer platform-specific packages over platform-agnostic ones. Even though they are larger than platform-agnostic packages, they don't depend on the installed runtime environment and thus more stable and easier to maintain.
You should consider installing platform-agnostic packages if your operating system or CPU architecture is not supported by a platform-specific package. For example, you have an x86 version of Ubuntu 12.04. There is no platform-specific package for this platform but you can still download qbt-netfx46-version.zip package and run it using mono.