Transmission is an open source, volunteer-based project. Unlike some BitTorrent clients, Transmission doesn’t play games with its users to make money. Transmission doesn’t bundle toolbars, advertisements, twitter tools, or anything else. It doesn’t hold some feaures back for a payware version. Its source code is available for anyone to review. Its website and forums have no third-party ads or tracking.
To upgrade Transmission open a Terminal window (press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal) and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Because Transmission is installed by default you can upgrade the to the latest version using the sudo apt-get upgrade command line. To start Transmission press Alt+F2 and type: transmission-gtk.
If you can’t find upgrades using the terminal window or get a message about packages being held back you can upgrade transmission by doing a system update.
Transmission Homepage
Some features:
Uses fewer resources than other clients
Native Mac, GTK+ and Qt GUI clients
Daemon ideal for servers, embedded systems, and headless use
All these can be remote controlled by Web and Terminal clients
Local Peer Discovery
Full encryption, DHT, µTP, PEX and Magnet Link support
Did not work, it didn’t find any updates to Transmission so I installed aptitude instead and then used that to install the new Transmission over the old one.
Weird.. i used it to upgrade transmission on 3 of my other systems and it worked without any problems.