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Set up qbittorrent

Reference: Docker Hub qbittorrent

Set up directories.

cd ~
mkdir -p qbittorrent/appdata
mkdir downloads

Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following contents.

cd qbittorrent
nano docker-compose.yaml

services:
  qbittorrent:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Lisbon
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
      - TORRENTING_PORT=6881
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/qbittorrent/appdata:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/media/downloads:/downloads' #optional
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
      - 6881:6881
      - 6881:6881/udp
    restart: unless-stopped

Then while in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml run:

docker compose up -d

The web UI is available at http://homeserver:8080.