Script Installation

Docker - Install commands

Notes

Some notes on the dockers method:

• We use a subdirectory, not your $HOME directory, to avoid .bashrc and .profile conflicts.
• A subdirectory is automatically created, named qbt by the use of -v $HOME/qbt:/root
• The default path will be HOME/qbt outside the docker container and /root/qbt inside it.
• We use -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" with Debian based images to avoid some errors.

Debian

tags

You use debian:bullseye debian:bookworm debian:latest or a supported tag

To bootstrap the container:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root debian:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic && bash'

All in one command:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root debian:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic | bash -s all'

Ubuntu

tags

You use ubuntu:focal ubuntu:jammy ubuntu:noble ubuntu:latest

To bootstrap the container:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root ubuntu:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && bash'

All in one command:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root ubuntu:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic | bash -s all'

Alpine

tags

You use alpine:edge alpine:latest

To bootstrap the container:

docker run -it -w /root -v ~/qbt:/root alpine:edge /bin/ash -c 'apk update && apk add bash curl && bash'

All in one command:

docker run -it -w /root -v ~/qbt:/root alpine:edge /bin/ash -c 'apk update && apk add bash curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic | bash -s all'

Host - Install commands

Debian

wget -qO ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh https://git.io/qbstatic

Alpine

For Alpine specifically, you need to install bash to use this script.

apk add bash

To execute the script use this command:

wget -qO ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh https://git.io/qbstatic

Post installation

If you need to install the dependencies and you have sudo privileges then do this:

Caution

This only needs to be done once, as root, to install the dependencies. Using certain enviroment variables or switches can add dependencies, like -c for cmake.

You may need to escalate your privileges again.

sudo bash ~/qbittorrent-nox-static.sh

Docker via SSH

Some notes on the dockers method:

• We use a subdirectory, not your $HOME directory, to avoid .bashrc and .profile conflicts.
• A subdirectory is automatically created, named qbt by the use of -v $HOME/qbt:/root
• The finale default path will be HOME/qbt outside the docker container and /root/qbt inside it.

Tip

build envs can be passed to the docker using -e . Such as -e qbt_cross_name=aarch64

Debian

Tip

You use debian:bullseye debian:bookworm debian:latest

To bootstrap the container:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root debian:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && bash'

All in one command:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root debian:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic | bash -s all'

Ubuntu

Tip

You use ubuntu:focal ubuntu:jammy ubuntu:noble ubuntu:latest

To bootstrap the container:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root ubuntu:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && bash'

All in one command:

docker run -it -w /root -e "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" -v ~/qbt:/root ubuntu:latest /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic | bash -s all'

Alpine

Tip

You use alpine:edge alpine:latest

To bootstrap the container:

docker run -it -w /root -v ~/qbt:/root alpine:edge /bin/ash -c 'apk update && apk add bash curl && bash'

All in one command:

docker run -it -w /root -v ~/qbt:/root alpine:edge /bin/ash -c 'apk update && apk add bash curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic | bash -s all'

Note

Please see the switches and flags summary to see what options you can pass and how to use them

You can modify the installation command by editing this part of the docker command.

bash -s all

For example, to use ICU using -i, -c to trigger cmake and in turn activate Qt6 and optimise for the system CPU using -o:

bash -s all -i -c -o