How to install the command line transmissioncli bittorrent client in Ubuntu

mkdir ~/downloads
cd ~/downloads

# get the latest stable version from http://www.transmissionbt.com/download.php
wget http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-1.83.tar.bz2

bunzip2 transmission-1.83.tar.bz2
tar -xvf transmission-1.83.tar
cd transmission-1.83/
cat README | more

sudo apt-get install intltool
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install openssl

./configure
make
sudo make install

# verify that the install worked
ls -la /usr/local/bin/transmissioncli

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