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Installing qBittorrent CLI on Windows

Supported Windows Versions

The following Windows versions are supported:

  • Windows 7 SP1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016

Getting Installation Package

The installation package is a Windows installer file with .msi extensions. It is named in the following way:

qbittorrent-cli-<version>-<cpu_arch>.msi

<version> is the version of the package. <cpu_arch> is the CPU architecture. It can be either x86 for 32-bit CPU or x64 for 64-bit CPU. If you don't know which CPU you have, you can download x86 package as it runs on both 32- and 64-bit systems.

For example 32-bit package of version 1.0.0.0 will have name qbittorrent-cli-1.0.0.0-x86.msi.

You can download the installation package either from or Github Releases page:

github https://github.com/fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli/releases

Installation

You can perform the typical install in the following five steps:

  1. Run the downloaded MSI-file by double clicking on it.
  2. Accept the license agreement.
  3. Click Install button to begin installation.
  4. Click Yes in the UAC popup window.
  5. Wait for the installation completion and click the Finish button.

Alternatively, you can adjust some additional parameters if you click Advanced button. The following parameters can be set:

  • Installation scope: for all users (recommended and used by default) or for the current user only (does not require administrative permissions)
  • Installation directory (if installation scope is for all users)
  • Whether the installation directory will be added to the PATH environment variable (recommended and enabled by default)

Upgrades

In order to upgrade qBittorrent CLI just download the MSI package for the new version and install it as usual.

Uninstalling

Windows 10

  1. Open Start Menu
  2. Press the Settings button (it has a picture of gear on it)
  3. In the Settings window press the Apps button.
  4. In the App & features list find qBittorrent Command Line Interface item, click it and press the Uninstall button

Installing with Chocolatey

It is also possible to install qBittorrent CLI by using Chocolatey package manager.

  1. Install Chocolatey if it is not installed yet.
  2. Execute the following command in the elevated powershell: 
    choco install qbittorrent-cli -y --source https://www.myget.org/F/qbittorrent-cli/api/v2
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