Setup Advanced MacOSX

Installing Platform-Specific Packages on macOS (Advanced Setup)

Supported macOS versions

The following macOS versions are supported:

• 10.12 (Sierra)
• 10.13 (High Sierra)

It might be possible to run qBittorrent CLI on earlier Mac OS X versions using mono runtime and platform-agnostics packages.

Installing qBittorrent CLI

1. Download the qBittorrent CLI tar.gz-archive from the Releases page. The archive for macOS has the name qbt-osx-x64-<version>.tar.gz.

2. Create a folder qbt in /usr/local directory and cd into it:

   sudo mkdir /usr/local/qbt && cd "$_"

   You may want to install qBittorrent CLI in another folder. In this case change the paths in this tutorial correspondingly.

3. Extract the archive to the newly created folder:

   sudo tar xvf /path/to/downloaded/archive.tar.gz

4. Add execute permission to the file /usr/local/qbt/qbt:

   sudo chmod +x qbt

5. Create a symlink /usr/bin/qbt pointing to file /usr/local/qbt/qbt:

   sudo ln -s /usr/local/qbt/qbt /usr/bin/qbt

   Alternatively, you may put this symlink to any other folder in your PATH.

Getting started with qBittorrent CLI:

Run the following command:

qbt --help