General security question Re: Transmission
Hi, I trust I am not out of bounds with a bittorent question.
I see that Transmission is the Linux version of bittorent client and in the past I have used this program.
I see that there seems to be no easy way to install this under RHEL6.5.
I don't see any clear method to install Transmission but I do see some information.
If this is not out of line here do you have any advice for me on installing Transmission.
There is a third party with a download for RHEL6.3 but is that safe?
Responses
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Of course, there's nothing wrong with Bittorrent. I seed downloads of the Raspberry Pi images on a system where I get free bandwidth.
You're correct that Red Hat don't supply a Transmission package. This isn't a component which really has "enterprise" demand, so it's not included in RHEL.
Whether a third-party package is what it claims to be or not, nobody can really say, that's the nature of third-party packages. It's down to how much you trust the packager.
There is a transmission package in EPEL.
I personally would consider EPEL trustworthy, because it's run by Fedora volunteers who provide a very transparent and verifiable operation, and because a lot of effort goes into EPEL to make sure that it doesn't interfere with the original OS.
If you don't wish to trust EPEL's binaries, you may also choose to compile from the SRPM supplied by EPEL, or compile from the upstream source code.
Hope that helps!
Active Contributor
170 points
I must have done something to my Yum because it failed to find that when I searched.
Interesting. I will go back through and see if I can get thisng working.
Thank You for the info.
Active Contributor
170 points
Never Mind.. That was the fedora repo..
I did find a reference to a fedora link that said Fedora 12 version works with RHEL6 and that link was bad.
I see you knew what the current status was and I thank you.
Transmission installed.
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Ah I see. RHEL6 was stabilized mostly from Fedora 12 sources. You can usually install F12 packages straight onto RHEL6 if you want to. The old unsupported Fedora versions are kept on an archive server (not the main release server) so some links around the internet still point to the release server. That was current when F12 was new but they're broken links now.
However in this case, I'd expect EPEL maintains a more recent version than was available back in 2009, so I'd go with EPEL :)
Glad you got it all working!
Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.