Celeb Glow
general | April 01, 2026

Command line BitTorrent client with UDP trackers support [duplicate]

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Is there bittorrent software that runs in a terminal?

I tried btdownloadcurses and while it works fine for most of the torrents, it seems to trip over ones where UDP is employed to track the sources.

The messages I am getting are:

Problem connecting to tracker - ('url error', 'unknown url type', 'udp', 'udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80

So are there any other command line clients with UDP support?

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3 Answers

These two packages should be suitable

aria2 Install aria2

rtorrent Install rtorrent

Try rtorrent. Check out the tutorial here if you don't enjoy browsing through manpages.

rtorrent should support this protocol.