Build qBittorrent on Fedora

According to the following instruction:

Dependencies

Boost

sudo dnf install boost-devel

OpenSSL

sudo dnf install openssl-devel

libtorrent-rasterbar

sudo dnf install rb_libtorrent

Or, build from source:

wget https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/releases/download/v2.0.11/libtorrent-rasterbar-2.0.11.tar.gz
tar -xzf libtorrent-rasterbar-2.0.11.tar.gz
rm libtorrent-rasterbar-2.0.11.tar.gz
cd libtorrent-rasterbar-2.0.11
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build

• replace 2.0.11 value with the actual version
• last step will install the libtorrent-rasterbar globally

zlib-static

sudo dnf install zlib-static

Qt

sudo dnf install qt6-qtbase-devel\
                 qt6-qttools-devel\
                 qt6-qtsvg-devel\
                 qt6-qtbase-private-devel

Python

sudo dnf install python3

Compile and install

Get the latest qBittorrent source code:

git clone https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent.git
cd qBittorrent

With graphical interface (Qt client)

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build
cmake --install build
qbittorrent

Without GUI (server with Web UI)

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGUI=OFF
cmake --build build
cmake --install build
qbittorrent-nox

Troubleshooting

Cannot open shared object file

If you see the following message upon launch:

qbittorrent: error while loading shared libraries: libtorrent-rasterbar.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try to create the soft symlinks:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libtorrent-rasterbar.so /usr/local/lib/libtorrent-rasterbar.so
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libtorrent-rasterbar.so.2.0 /usr/local/lib/libtorrent-rasterbar.so.2.0
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libtorrent-rasterbar.so.2.0.11 /usr/local/lib/libtorrent-rasterbar.so.2.0.11

• please note that the version may be different!