I had a 10.10 ubuntu installation and upgraded to most recent 11.04. After the upgrade when I start the transmission the window appears but no components inside and after a while it becomes grey and the option to force quite appears.
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2Offtopic: I find Deluge a lot better than Transmission– AshfameMay 4, 2011 at 13:59
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@Ashfame +1 for the suggestion I ll give it a try, i have tried azureus and the server version of μtorrent but wasn't really statisfied.– toplessMay 10, 2011 at 11:09
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Offtopic? Please, try Deluge, qTorrent (lighter), Flush (lightest) and see that they not have such issues. I am obsessed with the idea that people stay with Transmission just because it's default and think there must be a reason why.– user47206Mar 21, 2012 at 16:55
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How can default software of Ubuntu be off-topic? I stay with transmission because I don't care I just need some downloads, and it is there so I don't have to research about it and install extra stuff etc.. I agree that probably there are better tools out there, like always. And its a year ago and there was a way to fix it. A puzzle is always a challenge ;) help make good things, better! Cheers!– toplessMar 21, 2012 at 17:44
2 Answers
You could try reinstalling the Transmission packages you have installed:
dpkg -l | grep "ii transmission" | sed -e 's/ii //g' -e 's/ .*$//g' | xargs sudo apt-get install --reinstall
Command description: dpkg -l
lists all the installed packages and sends the output to grep
, which searches the list for transmission
. sed
then parses that and removes the description, package version, etc. so only the package name is shown. apt-get
then reinstalls those packages.
The problem solved by enabling the test ppa of transmission. It seemed to be transmission-gtk error.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install transmission-common transmission-gtk
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Where or how do you do that? Is that with synaptic ?– user22931Aug 8, 2011 at 0:45