Deluge is a cross platform bittorrent client licensed in GNU gpl v3. It can be installed in standalone mode with a graphical environment but also in client/server mode which support remote control with graphical (GTK), web or console user interfaces.

It utilises the libtorrent library and it's features and you can extend them, thanks to it's plugins ecosystem.

2017/08/09

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The method is described in the handbook at the chapter Users and Basic Account Management

/* put in bold characters each choices */ /* explain why each choices */

# adduser

Username: deluge
Full name: deluge
Uid (Leave empty for default):
Login group [deluge]:
Login group is deluge. Invite deluge into other groups? []:
Login class [default]:
Shell (sh csh tcsh nologin) [sh]: nologin
Home directory [/home/deluge]:
Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default):
Use password-based authentication? [yes]: no
Lock out the account after creation? [no]: no
Username   : deluge
Password   : <disabled>
Full Name  : deluge
Uid        : 1001
Class      :
Groups     : deluge
Home       : /home/deluge
Home Mode  :
Shell      : /usr/sbin/nologin
Locked     : no
OK? (yes/no): yes
adduser: INFO: Successfully added (deluge) to the user database.
Add another user? (yes/no): no
Goodbye!

An alternative method to create a user is to use the command pw

pw useradd -n deluge -u [ID] -G wheel -m -c "Deluge BitTorrent Client" -s /sbin/nologin -w no

You can check that the user has been created with the command # cat /etc/passwd

Specify the deluge user

# sysrc deluged_user="deluge"

Note : you can check the result of this command in the rc.conf configuration file with the command cat /etc/rc.conf

Thanks to the port maintainer rm@freebsd.org, since October 2016 the port includes a version without the GTK environment !

Install Deluge

pkg install deluge-cli

Note that you can search for the available ports with the command pkg search deluge

Make sure that deluge will start at boot

sysrc deluged_enable="YES"

create de default directory to contain configs files

mkdir -p /home/deluge/.config/deluge
chown -R deluge:deluge /home/deluge/

Start/stop the deluge daemon to generate config files

# service deluge start
# service deluge stop

Original howto written by David Stievenard