Installation

qbt ships as a single static binary for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Download a release binary

Download the latest release for your platform and put it somewhere in your $PATH.

Extract the archive:

tar -xzvf qbittorrent-cli_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz

Move it somewhere in $PATH (needs sudo if you are not root), or into your user $HOME/bin:

sudo mv qbt /usr/bin/

Verify that it runs - this should print the basic usage:

qbt

Install with Go

If you have Go installed you can install the latest release directly:

go install github.com/ludviglundgren/qbittorrent-cli/cmd/qbt@latest

Build from source

Clone the repository and build with make:

make build

Or with the Go toolchain directly:

go build -o bin/qbt cmd/qbt/main.go

Multi-platform builds with goreleaser

Builds made with goreleaser also embed version info:

goreleaser release --snapshot --skip=publish --clean

Next steps

Once installed, head to the Configuration guide to connect qbt to your qBittorrent instance.