Radarr is a movie download manager capable of downloading from BitTorrent and Usenet. It is a fork of Sonarr and is comparable to Couchpotato or Headphones. It integrates with rTorrent, uTorrent Server, Deluge, NZBGet and many more downloaders. It can also make use of Jackett to communicate with BitTorrent trackers.
ruTorrent is a web interface for a rTorrent. The overall look and feel is comparable to uTorrent Server. It requires Apache Web Server, PHP and of course rTorrent to be installed.
rTorrent is a fast and efficient command-line based BitTorrent client. It can work many front-end interfaces such as ruTorrent. When used with a web interface it is similar to other clients like uTorrent Server or Deluge.
Jackett is a proxy server that provides a translation service between applications like CouchPotato, Sonarr or Headphones and tracker sites. It supports many private trackers. Instead of configuring the tracker directly in the app, it is now configured in the web interface and added to the app as a generic indexer.
FlexGet is a download manager similar to NZBGet or uTorrent Server except that it is Command Line only and has no Graphical interface. It can handle torrents as well as nzb’s and can be configured to download content from many sources including rss. Since it has no graphical interface it can be quite complicated to configure. On the other hand it is not limited to downloading specific media types like movies so it is very powerful in how it can be configured. If couchpotato, sonarr and headphones just isn’t enough, Flexget can fill in the gaps.
Deluge is a Python based torrent client that consists of a back-end and front-end components. Daemon runs in the background while the interface can be one of several options. For a headless server web interface component is the most obvious option.
aMule is an eMule-like client for eD2k and Kademlia networks. While these networks are quite outdated by today’s standards, they do occasionally have older content not available anywhere else. It comes with a web interface that has limited configuration options.
UnRAR is an open source Linux port of WinRAR. It is one of the most popular extraction tools and is a requirement to install NZBGet on Arch Linux among many others. UnRAR can also be used to manually unpack archives. This is particularly functional on headless systems as extracting from a client over the network is very inefficient and slow.
uTorrent Server for Linux is surprisingly easy to install. The user and group are created automatically as is the systemd start up script. Most if not all settings can be configured from the gui. You may need to change the default port in the configuration file if for example XBMC / Kodi or another application that uses port 8080 is installed on the system.
Sonarr is a TV series download manager capable of downloading from Peer to Peer and Usenet networks. It is comparable to Couchpotato or Headphones except it manages only TV series. It integrates with rTorrent, uTorrent Server, Deluge, NZBGet and many more downloaders. It can also make use of Jackett to communicate with BitTorrent trackers.
NZBGet is a Usenet downloader that is stable, fast and packs a lot of features. It is available as a package on Arch Linux but does not come with systemd file out of the box. Fortunately it is simple to add a systemd configuration file.
