First, we install BTG build dependencies:

/usr/bin/apt-get install wget build-essential libgnutls-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
                 libboost-date-time-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev libssl-dev \
                 pkg-config libexpat1-dev dialog libncurses5-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-regex-dev

We also need to install a HTTP server with PHP 5 support. In order to do this, you can follow my guide Install Lighttpd and PHP 5 on Debian 4.0 Etch.

Building Rasterbar libtorrent

We choose the version we are willing to install:

VERSION=0.12

We download the sources archive:

/usr/bin/wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libtorrent/libtorrent-$VERSION.tar.gz \
    --output-document=/tmp/libtorrent-$VERSION.tar.gz

We extract the sources:

/bin/tar --directory=/tmp -xzf /tmp/libtorrent-$VERSION.tar.gz

And we go to the created folder:

cd /tmp/libtorrent-$VERSION

We configure the sources:

./configure

We build the library:

/usr/bin/make

And we install it:

/usr/bin/make install

BTG building

We choose the BTG version we are willing to install:

VERSION=0.9.7

We download the sources archive:

/usr/bin/wget http://download.berlios.de/btg/btg-$VERSION.tar.gz \
    --output-document=/tmp/btg-$VERSION.tar.gz

We extract the sources:

/bin/tar --directory=/tmp -xzf /tmp/btg-$VERSION.tar.gz

And we go to the created folder:

cd /tmp/btg-$VERSION

We configure BTG to be installed with Web UI, session saving, script callback on event, and command line interface:

./configure --enable-www --enable-session-saving --enable-event-callback --enable-cli

We build BTG:

/usr/bin/make

And we install:

/usr/bin/make install

Setup

First, we install the Web interface:

/bin/ln -s /usr/local/share/wwwbtg/htdocs/ /var/www/btg

Once this done, we install daemon configuration file:

/bin/mkdir /etc/btg
/usr/bin/wget http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/debian-4-0-etch/installer-btg-et-son-interface-web-wwwbtg-sur-debian-4-0-etch/daemon.ini \
    --output-document=/etc/btg/daemon.ini

We download the daemon init.d script:

/usr/bin/wget http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/debian-4-0-etch/installer-btg-et-son-interface-web-wwwbtg-sur-debian-4-0-etch/btgdaemon \
    --output-document=/etc/init.d/btgdaemon
/bin/chmod +x /etc/init.d/btgdaemon

We create the btg user that the daemon will run under:

/usr/sbin/adduser --home /var/lib/btg --no-create-home --disabled-login --disabled-password --system --group btg

We create the log file:

/usr/bin/touch /var/log/btg.log
/bin/chown -R btg:btg /var/log/btg.log

We create the BTG downloads directory:

/bin/mkdir /var/lib/btg
/usr/bin/touch /var/lib/btg/sessions.ini
/bin/chown -R btg:btg /var/lib/btg

User creation

Once every thing is ok, we create the users. In order to do this, choose the username you wan to use:

USERNAME=login

And use these command lines to create the user:

/bin/mkdir --parent /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/temp
/bin/mkdir --parent /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/work
/bin/mkdir --parent /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/seed
/bin/mkdir --parent /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/dest
/bin/chown -R btg:btg /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME
/usr/local/bin/btgpasswd --config /etc/btg/daemon.ini --create --add \
    --temp /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/temp \
    --work /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/work \
    --seed /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/seed \
    --dest /var/lib/btg/users/$USERNAME/dest \
    --password --username $USERNAME

Controlling BTG

To start BTG daemon, use:

/etc/init.d/btgdaemon start

To stop it, use:

/etc/init.d/btgdaemon stop

If you want BTG daemon to start when your computer start, use this command line:

/usr/sbin/update-rc.d btgdaemon defaults

Used ports

If you want to edit the ports used by btgdaemon for the BitTorrent download (9000 to 9100), you just need to modify the following line into the file /etc/btg/daemon.ini:

torrent-range=9000:9100

Using BTG

Once the daemon is started, you can access your BTG web interface by using this URL:

• http://localhost/btg/

Note: If BTG does not fit your needs, I encourage you to try Torrentflux-B4rt that do the same thing, but in another way. In order to do this, I invite you to follow my guide Install Torrentflux-b4rt on Debian 4.0 Etch.

Thanks

• Thanks to BTG developpers.
• Thanks to the writer of BTG Howto.