Transmission-Daemon Notes for Arch Linux based Distributions

If you are using a ​Arch based distribution, the notes on this page override the default transmission-daemon values stated elsewhere on this site.

Default Locations

Item	Location
Daemon init script	/etc/rc.d/transmissiond
Options, Configuration, daemon enable	/etc/conf.d/transmissiond
settings.json	~/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Environment Variables

The file /etc/conf.d/transmissiond should be edited to reflect the desired transmission-daemon user (your regular user is fine) and to uncomment the relevant lines. Note that by default the -g option is used in TRANS_ARGS to tell transmission-daemon to use its own settings.json. You may wish to point -g instead to your perhaps-already-installed transmission-gtk config dir, i.e., ~/.config/transmission . Stop the daemon before editing, and start it again to effect changes.

# TRANSMISSION_HOME=/home/foo
# TRANS_USER="foo"
# TRANS_ARGS="-g $TRANSMISSION_HOME/.config/transmission-daemon"

Refer to the Arch Linux ​rc.conf page for definitive system configuration file information, particularly the Daemons section.

The daemon can be started either by adding "transmissiond" to the daemons array in /etc/rc.conf, or can be started manually with:

# rc.d start transmissiond

Arch Linux packages

The following packages exist in the Arch Extra repository:

Package	Description
transmission-cli	Installs CLI tools, daemon and the web interface used by the other transmission packages
transmission-gtk	Installs GTK+ gui?
transmission-qt	Installs QT gui?