Transmission BitTorrent Client

Transmission BitTorrent Client

[Raghav Gururajan]

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Hello Guix!

I tried installing the package "Transmission". It is not showing up in
GNOME Menu. Typing "transmission" on terminal also not starting the
application. But I can see the package installed in my user profile.

Regards,
RG.

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Re: Transmission BitTorrent Client

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

Am 26.04.19 um 19:35 schrieb Raghav Gururajan:
> Hello Guix!
>
> I tried installing the package "Transmission". It is not showing up in
> GNOME Menu. Typing "transmission" on terminal also not starting the
> application. But I can see the package installed in my user profile.

The problem here is that the transmission package has two outputs: out
and gui. These are kind of like subpackages. You need the gui one. And
out is the default so transmission means basically transmission:out :)

$ guix package --show=transmission
name: transmission
version: 2.94
outputs: out gui
[...]

In order to install the UI client of transmission, you only need to use:
$ guix package --install=transmission:gui

Then transmission should appear in the GNOME menu or at least as
transmission-gtk in your terminal.

~Jonathan

P.S: I think questions like this fit better on the help-guix@gnu.org
mailinglist:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/contact/

Re: Transmission BitTorrent Client

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Raghav,

Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> I tried installing the package "Transmission". It is not showing 
> up in
> GNOME Menu.

Transmission's GTK GUI interface is in a separate package output 
(to keep the main output from depending on GTK+, which is quite 
huge).  Install ‘transmission:gui’ and you'll be happy.

The :gui output also provides a .desktop file that should make 
things like GNOME add it to their launcher.

> Typing "transmission" on terminal also not starting the
> application.

The command is ‘transmission-gtk’; ‘transmission’ doesn't exist.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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