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Frequently Asked Questions
qBittorrent is a Free software under GNU GPLv2 license. You don't have to pay for it and it won't change. Its code is open and available to everyone and reusable as long as you keep the license information and mention the original author (see the license text for more information). qBittorrent - of course - does not contain any malware, spyware or third-part program.
qBittorrent bug tracker is located on launchpad, here. Do not hesitate to report any problem you may experience with qBittorrent and we will do our best to address it.
On our bug tracker, here. All ideas/feedback are welcome. Just know that we want qBittorrent to stay a low-footprint software and we do not want to integrate "heavy" features that are not really useful to most people.
Do not hesitate to send patches at the following address: chris(at)qbittorrent(dot)org. We will review it shortly.
qBittorrent was created in Mars 2006 by [email protected], and still actively maintained/developed by him. Several other persons (Arnaud Demaiziere, Ishan Arora, Stephanos Antaris, Mohammad Dib) contributed or are still contributing to the project. If you like the software and you would like to help the project to subsist by giving some money, please do so here. We thank you in advance.
qBittorrent code compiles on Unix-like systems (Linux, BSD, MacOSX...) and Windows. Windows is officially supported as of qBittorrent v2.2.9.
qBittorrent is now officially included in the repositories of the major Linux Distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, Alt Linux, ...). Binary distributions are usually available to the other distributions through 3rd party repositories. If not, feel free to file a bug report against your Linux distribution.
qBittorrent is a Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing software. Although the software is perfectly legal, it may be illegal to download copyrighted content with this software, depending on the law in your country.
A lot of other Bittorrent clients exist but qbittorrent has several advantages:
- It is a Free software (you can see the code and see what qBittorrent is doing)
- It is the closest open-source equivalent to the official Bittorrent client: µTorrent
- Its development team is very active and friendly
- It is stable and it has a low footprint. while providing all the features you may need
- It is easy to use and all its features are well documented.
- It is an international program, supporting Unicode and translated into more than 25 languages
You are probably using Gnome >= 2.28. As a default, this window manager is no longer displaying menu icons. You can change this behavior by issuing the following two commands in a terminal:
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true
Well, actually I lacked inspiration on this one :P qBittorrent is simply a Bittorrent client written using Qt4 graphic toolkit for its user interface. Most programs developed with Qt4 toolkit use a 'q' as first letter of their name. qBT abbreviation is also commonly used to refer to qBittorrent client. However, please do not use qtorrent abbreviation since another Bittorrent with this name already exists.
qBittorrent saves its preferences in ~/.config/qBittorrent/ folder. The .torrent files are stored in:
- ~/.qBittorrent/ by qBittorrent < 2.1.0
- ~/.local/share/data/qBittorrent/ by qBittorrent >= 2.1.0. This is the standard XDG data folder.
I configured qBittorrent not to download some files in a torrent but they still appear on my hard disk, why is that?
As you may know, a torrent is split into pieces of equal sizes that do not take files into consideration. As a consequence, a piece can contain information relative to more than one file and qBittorrent only operates at piece level. As a consequence, if two files are adjacent and you choose to download only one of them, it is likely that the filtered one will be partly downloaded and thus appear on the hard-disk.
qBittorrent is handling seeding torrents priority by itself in order to optimize sharing and benefit to the swarm as much as possible.
Most users want to keep the torrents they are downloading or seeding when switching to qBittorrent from another Bittorrent client. This is of course possible and it is quite simple to achieve. Here is how should should proceed:
- Add the *.torrent files corresponding to your torrents to qBittorrent
- Deluge stores its *.torrent files in ~/.config/deluge/
- KTorrent stores its *.torrent files in ~/.kde4/share/apps/ktorrent/
- Vuze stores its *.torrent files in ~/.azureus/torrents/
- Transmission stores its *.torrent files in ~/.config/transmission/torrents/
- rTorrent stores its *.torrent files in ~/.session/ (as a default)
- Edit the download path in torrent addition dialog and choose the path where the torrents were actually being downloaded/seeded.
- For the torrents that are complete, you can select Skip file checking and start seeding immediately option in torrent addition dialog in order to save time and CPU. Basically, qBittorrent will trust that the local files are not corrupt and will start seeding them without rechecking all the files.
Yes and Yes! qBittorrent can be run on your server and controlled remotely through its Web UI. As a default, the Web UI is running on http://server-ip:8080 (user: admin, password: adminadmin). If you server does not have a X server running, then you will need to disable qBittorrent graphical user interface at compilation time (>= v2.1.0 only). Pass --disable-debug parameter to the configure file before compilation to disable the GUI. A documentation to disable qBittorrent GUI is available here.
Support for cookies in RSS feeds was added in qBittorrent v2.3.0.
To use feeds that require cookies, you must find the cookie for the site, and grab UID and pass from it.
- Firefox users will find their cookies in Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Show Cookies
- Opera users will find their cookies in Tools -> Advanced -> Cookies
- IE users will find their cookies in %UserProfile%\Cookies
- Users of other browsers will have to consult their browser's documentation
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| uid | 1234 |
| pass | asdjh12378912y3lk |
Not every site uses uid and pass as the cookie variables, or use additional ones, so one MUST use the exact variable name and the extra variables they specify. For example, a certain site uses id, password, and secure as its cookie variables.
Each Bittorrent client is identified by a string called Peer ID. This ID is sometimes used by trackers to whitelist only a limited amount of trusted clients.
qBittorrent Peer ID is formatted as follows: -qBXYZ0- where:
- X is the major version number
- Y is the minor version number
- Z is the bugfix version number (in hexadecimal so that we can go up to 15)
- qBittorrent v2.4.10: -qB24A0-
- qBittorrent v3.0.2: -qB3020-