Ubuntu 15.04 qbt v3.2 upgrade libtorrent to version 1.0.4+ from v0.16?

[bjames88]

I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 and have installed qBitorrent using the PPA from the website.  I'm on v3.2.0 but I see libtorrent is still at v0.16.  Could someone give me some info on how I can libtorrent updated?  I want to have the force_proxy option which is provided in the new version.

Thanks

[ciaobaby]

http://www.libtorrent.org/building.html

[bjames88]

Will the repos be updated and I can just wait for that?  Or did I need to build from source to get it?  I do see that the Mac and Windows builds already have the updated libtorrent library.

Also I haven't done a lot of building from source.  Should I uninstall qbt that I installed from the repo before building and installing from source?  If the repo updates afterward will I continue to get updates that way or would I need to continue building from source?  Sorry if these are noobish questions but if someone could at least point me to answers I would appreciate it.  Thanks.

[ciaobaby]

Will the repos be updated and I can just wait for that?

Who knows, but holding your breath while that happens would probably not be a good idea.

There are two PPAs you can add to apt-get/

qBittorrent-team >> https://launchpad.net/~qbittorrent-team
and
Evgeny Lensky ( >> https://launchpad.net/~surfernsk/+archi ... t-software

[bjames88]

The repos don't have the update and I'm having trouble building from source so I guess I'm stuck currently.

[ciaobaby]

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The repos don't have the update and I'm having trouble building from source so I guess I'm stuck currently.
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Did you miss the post about adding PPAs to your available repositories??

[bjames88]

Yes I had added the PPA's.  Those versions have v3.2 of qbt but the libtorrent library is still on v0.16.  I was finally able to compile from source to get the newer libtorrent though.

It would be great if the PPA's could still be updated though.

Thanks

[ciaobaby]

They probably will when everybody has more confidence in libtorrent 1.0.n 

[bjames88]

OK fair enough but since the Windows builds are already using the new libtorrent it seems odd still.

[ciaobaby]

Windows installations are a compiled binary installation that uses whatever libraries it was originally compiled with and were packaged with it in the 'setup' application.

[bjames88]

OK its becoming clearing to me after a bunch of research and trail and error.  The reason I was on the old libtorrent is that Ubuntu 15.04 repos haven't rev'ed to the libtorrent versions 1.0.x yet, they are still on the v0.16+ builds since that's what it shipped with.  I was not able to find any PPA's that had the newest libtorrent versions which is why I was stuck on that version.  I was able to remove libtorrent and qBittorrent and then build from source libtorrent followed by qBittorrent and now everything is up to day.  I also discovered the checkinstall utility that creates a deb package which is used to install the packages allowing easy removal and/or updates of these packages also.