Nowadays it’s really simple to install Transmission on CentOS 7 or EL distro. First you need to install EPEL packages:
$ yum install epel-release
$ yum -y update
…or use the following command if you’re running Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
$ yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-$(rpm -E '%{rhel}').noarch.rpm
Install Transmission:
$ yum install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon
Create storage directory:
$ mkdir /ebs-data/transmission/
$ chown -R transmission.transmission /ebs-data/transmission/
Start and stop the Transmission to auto generate configs:
$ systemctl start transmission-daemon.service
$ systemctl stop transmission-daemon.service
To edit the config, you MUST first stop the daemon, otherwise the config will be overwritten after you restart the daemon:
$ systemctl stop transmission-daemon.service
$ var /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json
Edit config:
"download-dir": "/ebs-data/transmission",
"incomplete-dir": "/ebs-data/transmission",
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "my_password",
"rpc-username": "my_user",
"rpc-whitelist": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
Save and start daemon:
$ systemctl start transmission-daemon.service
Access via your browser:
$ open http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/