Many people have become disillusioned with utorrent in recent months, including myself. I looked into other torrent clients and found qBittorrent. It’s simply fantastic! Its web client works perfectly in mobile browsers, and the system itself is very stable.

It can be installed on Ubuntu as follows:

You need to add its repository to the cache:

add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

Update the source list:

apt-get update

Depending on whether you want only the web client or also the desktop client, install accordingly:

For the installation, we need the media server file matching our system from the Plex website, which can be found here.

Copying the package download link, download it to the VPS or server machine:

wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/0.9.15.3.1674-f46e7e6/plexmediaserver_0.9.15.3.1674-f46e7e6_amd64.deb

Then install the downloaded file:

dpkg --install plexmediaserver_0.9.15.3.1674-f46e7e6_amd64.deb

If it complains about missing dependencies, you can install them with the following command:

apt-get -f install

Then navigate to the /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ directory, and edit the Preferences.xml file using nano or vi, by adding the following line after the Preferences word in the file (replacing 1.2.3.4 with your own IP address):

Some of you probably know BTsync, it’s a very useful little program. Basically it’s used for transferring files over the BitTorrent protocol. Here’s how to install it:

To add sources to the apt repository, you need to install the necessary packages first, if you haven’t already:

apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties

Then add the source:

add-apt-repository ppa:tuxpoldo/btsync

Then run an update:

apt-get update

And install the program itself:

apt-get install btsync

You’ll also need a web server, both nginx and apache work fine.

If you want to run a Java app on a fresh Ubuntu server, (say Minecraft) then you first need to install the appropriate Java runtime. You can do this as follows:

Update the apt repository with the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Then check if Java is already installed:

java -version

Install the Java Runtime Environment with the following command:

sudo apt-get install default-jre

And for the Java Development Kit, use this: