HOW TO INSTALL TIXATI TORRENT CLIENT IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST TORRENT SOFTWARE FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Tixati torrent client in Ubuntu 16.04. Tixati torrent software is a open source torrent client application like utorrent client used to download content like videos, audios, documents and so on from internet using P2P technology. It’s an nice lightweight and user friendly application. Tixati client comes with various features shown below :

• Download the files very fast.
• Can pause and resume the downloading.
• Control the bandwidth speed.
• Schedule the downloading.
• Set download size limit.
• Tixati software is a cross platform application available for Linux & Microsoft Windows.

Tixati torrent software was initially developed by Kevin Hearn using c++ programming language and released under Proprietary license. Here we are going to install the latest version of Tixati client in Ubuntu 16.04

Follow the below steps to install Tixati torrent client in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Best torrent software for Linux

We have to download the Tixati torrent client package from official website. So follow the below command to download the same.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ wget https://download2.tixati.com/download/tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb   # Download the Tixati torrent software Package
--2017-11-01 09:14:39--  https://download2.tixati.com/download/tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb
Resolving download2.tixati.com (download2.tixati.com)... 78.142.19.238, 91.219.238.175, 91.219.237.221
Connecting to download2.tixati.com (download2.tixati.com)|78.142.19.238|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9035940 (8.6M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb’

tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb                    100%[=====================================================================================>]   8.62M   172KB/s    in 61s     

2017-11-01 09:15:44 (145 KB/s) - ‘tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb’ saved [9035940/9035940]

Here I have downloaded the Tixati torrent software .deb package. Refer the output below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ ls -l tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook 9035940 Sep 26 21:53 tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb

Now before installation of Tixati torrent client package let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                                                                           
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease              
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease      
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wiznote-team/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease 
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

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Now we are ready to install the Tixati torrent software package. So to install the same use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb   # Install Tixati client Package
Selecting previously unselected package tixati.
(Reading database ... 174696 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack tixati_2.55-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking tixati (2.55-1) ...
Setting up tixati (2.55-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...

As you can see above we have successfully installed the tixati torrent client package. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l tixati   # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  tixati                               2.55-1                  amd64                   Tixati P2P Client

Now to open the application just type the command tixati on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ tixati   # Open the Tixati torrent software application

Tixati application version :

You can also open the Tixati torrent client application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the application use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r tixati   # Uninstall the Tixati application
(Reading database ... 174698 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing tixati (2.55-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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