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Installation Using OS Packages
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While installing using pre-compiled packages is the easiest way
to get a working *rTorrent* executable onto your system,
it has the unfortunate side-effect that quite often these packages
contain a rather outdated version of it.

You might want to look in the “testing” or “experimental” repositories
of your distribution, or alternatively install from source (see below).

* The `rTorrent wiki <https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki#packages>`_ lists package names and installation commands for a lot of *Linux* distributions and other operating systems.
* DEB packages of *rTorrent-PS* for Debian and Ubuntu are on `Bintray <https://bintray.com/pyroscope/rtorrent-ps/rtorrent-ps/>`_.
* *“Arch User Repository”* (AUR) PKGBUILDs maintained by `@xsmile <https://github.com/xsmile>`_ for
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