[Solved] Noob upgrading Transmission

ribbles · Jan 5th 2014

I want to upgrade to Transmission 2.8. They finally added the ability to rename folders, a feature I REALLY REALLY want.
However when I try to install the .deb it says I need libc >= 2.15. I read around that upgrading libc can break my system. Is this true? Is there a way to get TM 2.8 on my system? I already broke my transmission install trying to install 2.8 and I'm not sure how to fix it.
I am on OMV 4.38. Will upgrading to 5 allow me to use 2.8?
Thanks

subzeroin · Jan 5th 2014

Don't upgrade libc. It will only mess things up.

You can build the latest version of transmission yourself by following this https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Building#DebianSqueeze. You need to change the version numbers on some places too to the latest version.

ryecoaaron · Jan 5th 2014

You really don't want to upgrade libc. OMV 0.4 and 0.5 the same Debian Squeeze base. OMV 0.6 will use Wheezy which will help a lot (new libc). I made a transmission 2.82 package a long time ago. Not sure if it works because I don't use it. You can get it here.

subzeroin · Jan 5th 2014

Yeah, or you could just use the package ryecoaroon built (forgot about that one), it works since I've tested it

ribbles · Jan 5th 2014

Well shoot that would be cool but I am on a 32 bit machine unfortunately.
Going to try compiling myself I guess.

tekkb · Jan 5th 2014

CK1one · Feb 26th 2014

i tried to install the transmission 2.82 build http://omv-extras.org/testing/

Code

dpkg -i transmission_2.82-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 26956 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace transmission 2.82-1 (using transmission_2.82-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement transmission ...
Setting up transmission (2.82-1) ...

but the running transmission client still reports old version 2.73.. did i miss anything ? do i need to apt-get update transmission after installing the *.deb ?

Code

transmission-daemon --version
transmission-daemon 2.82 (14160)

ribbles · Mar 8th 2014

check the path?

do
$ which transmission-cli
that deb installs it to /usr/local/bin/transmission-cli

maybe your old one is in a different location or something

As for me I just compiled it myself since i needed 32 bit and it works fine, I am a happy chappy.

CK1one · Mar 8th 2014

thanks you =)

i just copied files to usr/bin and its working now
but how can i fix transmission package installation to be correctly installed in usr/local/bin ?

Quote from "ribbles"

check the path?

do
$ which transmission-cli
that deb installs it to /usr/local/bin/transmission-cli

maybe your old one is in a different location or something

As for me I just compiled it myself since i needed 32 bit and it works fine, I am a happy chappy.

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ribbles · Mar 15th 2014

maybe your path has /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin? do: $ echo $path

I just checked my system and it is installed in /usr/local/bin too. not sure why yours would be in /usr/bin

ryecoaaron · Mar 15th 2014

It probably was a package build option that didn't get changed.

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