Installation guide for Debian 10

[karibuTW]

Hello guys,
I revisited my 2y old tutorial as I had several requests to do so.

I am just sharing how I installed rtorrent and flood on a fresh debian 10
https://freedif.org/how-to-install-flood-rtorrent-on-debian-10

It works well like this, but I guess I can do further tweak.
If you have some amelioration ideas, please share.

Thank you

[Commissar0617]

-bash: npm: command not found

npm is not installed on debian by default

[karibuTW]

Hi, you are supposed to install it at step 4:

apt install curl build-essential git
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
apt install -y nodejs

Any issue there?

Thanks

[Commissar0617]

honestly, im not sure if that did much, as i was doing this on an LXC container on root, hence no sudo.
i just went and apt installed npm and it seems to have worked.

[Commissar0617]

so, i followed the instructions... but now all im getting is the default apache page...
both flood and rtorrent show as running.

[Commissar0617]

also ExecStop=/usr/bin/killall

gives an error if it's in there, as there is no /usr/bin/killall

[karibuTW]

You may have a very minimal system
apt install psmisc

If this works, I will update the tutorial. Thanks

[Commissar0617]

still no flood UI on 80 or 3000.

[Commissar0617]

possible some progress... I added a proxypass to /node and it give a 503 now instead of 404

[Commissar0617]

https://github.com/Flood-UI/flood/wiki/Troubleshooting

the steps for being on a non-local got me in, but it won't connect to rtorrent now.

[karibuTW]

So you have access to flood UI now? What have you done?
And for the rtorrent, you use the right port?

[Commissar0617]

if i start flood manually, yes. not if it is started as a service.(which is weird because the flood service literally uses the same script, i verified that)

and i am using port 5000 for rtorrent, which is the port i set in the UI the one time i could access it.

[Commissar0617]

fixed the issue with it not running as a service, had file permission errors. i can now access the ui at port 3000, but it still can't talk to rtorrent.

edit: looks like rtorrent not listening on any port

[karibuTW]

You have this in your .rtorrent.rc?

SCGI port, used to communicate with Flood

network.scgi.open_port = 127.0.0.1:5000

It will open the communication port on 5000 for Flood to connect to it.

[Commissar0617]

yep. still nothing listening on 5000 ,and netstat -tulpn shows no rtorrent

[Commissar0617]

root@ruskidown:/home/rtorrent# service rtorrent status

• rtorrent.service - rTorrent
  Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rtorrent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2020-03-30 01:41:13 UTC; 5s ago
  Process: 1209 ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -d -m -fa -S rtorrent /usr/bin/rtorrent (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Main PID: 1209 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
  Memory: 4.6M
  CGroup: /system.slice/rtorrent.service

Mar 30 01:41:13 ruskidown systemd[1]: Started rTorrent.
Mar 30 01:41:13 ruskidown systemd[1]: rtorrent.service: Succeeded.
root@ruskidown:/home/rtorrent#

this look right?

[Commissar0617]

so im actually starting over using a VM instead of a ct. has issues with LXC privleges that wld keep it from working

edit: is working in a VM. seems LXC has some major security things, such as not allowing SMB shares, etc.

[Jogai]

I'd recommend using nvm instead of nodejs from the debian repositories. Its friendlier for people that are new to node, and might have to change the node version for other projects.

[karibuTW]

Thanks Jogai for the comment.

[Jogai]

Well I saw later you tie into the services, I dont know how well an nvm managed node works with that. In my setup I start it manually.

[Luth1ng]

hey @karibuTW
I followed your guide to make a fresh install of flood on my Debian10.

I also added the https functionnality with the apache virtualhost.
I can send you my config file if you want to add it to your guide

Thanks for your work!

[karibuTW]

Super, you used letsencrypt or different? I should cover it I guess, so I'll be happy to get info from you.

Thank you

[acantepie]

Thank for your work @karibuTW 👍
I have used your guide to install my seedbox on raspbian 10.

I my case :

• i change floodServerHost to '0.0.0.0' on flood/config.js
• i have to rebuild node.sass package cause of ARM arch (before execute npm run build)
• i have to execute all npm commands with --unsafe-perm options