Raspberry Pi is a quite slow ARM board, compared to other boards. Even if you compare Raspberry Pi B+ against Raspberry Pi 2. So maybe one of the best use of RasPi is to make it seedbox. Let’s say you’re at the office and a friend tells you to test a distro. You can login to your home Raspberry Pi seedbox and add the torrent file there.
Here I will show you how to setup Transmission, vftpd and suggestions for Android programs.
First of all, download and create the openSUSE SD card (resize your SD card to full size or you can mount the extra size as extra partition. Since it’s not something important, then you can use full size of your SD card).
Then setup the dynamic dns service (see previous posts).
Finally set a static IP (to use it with port forward of your router).
INSTALL TRANSMISSION
First install transmission:
$ zypper in transmission transmission-daemon
Create 2 folders for incomplete torrents and completed torrents:
$ mkdir -p /torrents/incomplete && mkdir /torrents/complete
Configure proper permissions for transmission:
$ chgrp transmission /torrents/incomplete
$ chgrp transmission /torrents/complete
$ chmod 770 /torrents/incomplete
$ chmod 777 /torrents/complete
