How to install qbittorrent from the source?

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and I'd like to know the steps of source installation of qbittorrent. I know that some of you might say why bother yourself when there's .ppa, but I really want to learn source installation of my softwares. It's hard I know but it's the only way you get a relationship with Linux.

Answer 1

Disclaimer: all this is done via console First get the build-essential and checkinstall packages: apt-get update and apt-get install build-essential checkinstall. You will always need these: build-essential is a metapackage that contains basic building libraries utils needed for compiling, checkinstall is used to make compiled packages into .debs.

Then go to wiki (here) and follow the instructions.

However after you actually compile it (running make with no arguments actually compiles the program) don't run make install, instead run checkinstall to build a .deb package that will contain all information needed to keep your compiled qbittorrent working and easy to remove through dpkg (otherwise you'd need to keep the folder with compiled qbittorrent to actually uninstall it with make uninstall).