How to download ruTorrent via SVN

Description

You must have Subversion installed. Consult your unix distribution page for details.

If you wish to install rutorrent to /var/www/rutorrent, execute the following commands: cd /var/www/ svn co http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rutorrent

Updating or checking out a different revision

If you've already checked out ruTorrent from svn, and which to update it to the current revision, cd to the directory ruTorrent is installed and run a "svn update" like in the following example. (note: in this example rutorrent has been installed to /var/www/rutorrent. Your webroot may be different)

cd /var/www/rutorrent svn up

If you wish to check out a specific revision, add -r revision_number. For example, to check out revision 870 you would do something like this: (note: this is rarely necessary, but in rare occasions, a new revision will break compatibility. In these situations, knowing how to check out an earlier revision can be golden).

cd /var/www/rutorrent svn up -r 870

(note: It's very important to remember, when upgrading from one revision to another, you should always stop rtorrent before you upgrade, upgrade, then restart rtorrent. Failure to stop/start rtorrent when upgrading can lead to plugins not working properly)

Checking out Plugins

Checking out plugins is basically the same as checking out the base system. If you already have rutorrent installed, simply change to the plugins/ directory under rutorrent, and check out your plugin, like in the following example. For example, if you have rutorrent installed to /var/www/rutorrent and would like to check out the rpc plugin:

cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins svn co http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/rpc

(note: for a full list of available plugins please see Plugins page).

Updating Plugins

Updating plugins works exactly like updating rutorrent:

cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins/rpc svn up

but you can also update all the plugins by doing something like this: cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins svn up *

Wonslung's Method

(NOTE: If you read this and do not understand it, please stick to the section ABOVE this point)

I tend to prefer downloading everything from trunk, and using plugins.ini to disable the plugins i do not plan to use. (See plugins.ini for more details)

This works something like this:

cd /var/www svn co http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk rm -rf trunk/rutorrent/plugins/ mv trunk/plugins/ trunk/rutorrent/ mv trunk/rutorrent/ /var/www/ rm -rf /var/www/trunk/

This will give you rutorrent installed to /var/www/rutorrent with all plugins. If you wish to update the svn, you simply do the following:

cd /var/www/rutorrent/ svn up

and it will update rutorrent core and all of the plugins which come from the rutorrent svn but not any 3rd party plugins. Refer to any documentation from the 3rd party vendor for these plugins.

Like i said above, i simply disable any plugins i do not plan to use by editing the plugins.ini file. You can do this on a per user basis as well.