Install rutorrent plugin on debian VPS

ruTorrent Plugins:

ruTorrent is a popular rTorrent webUI for it's variety of plugins. Plugins are very useful to customize ruTorrent web interface. Installing a plugin for ruTorrent is easy. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to install a new plugin (_task plugin for exmple) for ruTorrent. In the same way, you can install other plugins too.

Installation procedure:

1. Login in your server with root access.

2. Navigate to the plugin directory

cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins

3. Now, find a direct download link for the plugin that you want to install and download it to your server. I found a direct link for _task plugin by Googling.

wget  http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/files/_task-3.4.tar.gz

4. After download, extract it with tar command

tar xfzv _task-3.4.tar.gz
  

5. Now, you can delete the downloaded acrchive

rm  task-3.4.tar.gz

Done. You have successfully installed the plugin for ruTorrent  seedbox.

Installing ffmpeg in seedbox:

In some plugins, ffmpeg codec is neede. In that case, you have to install this codec in 

your server. To install this codec, run the following command.

apt-get install ffmpeg

Done. Reboot your server or restart your seedbox to take effect.