docker-rtorrent

A minimal docker container containing the latest version of rtorrent built from source.

Running

docker run -it -v /tmp/rtorrent/:/rtorrent 0xcaff/rtorrent

Configuring

In the container, rTorrent is started at the path /rtorrent as the rtorrent user.

To configure the behavior of rtorrent, create a .rtorrent.rc file from one of these guides (official-guide, bryanjswift-guide) and make it available in the container at the path /rtorrent/.rtorrent.rc. Here's an example where the configuration file is bind mounted from /tmp/.rtorrent.rc.

docker run -it -v /tmp/.rtorrent.rc:/rtorrent/.rtorrent.rc 0xcaff/rtorrent