Install qBittorrent-nox Inside Docker

Install docker

You need to install docker first before get started.

Take fedora as an example, just simply run these command:

# First, remove old docker packages
sudo dnf remove docker \
                  docker-client \
                  docker-client-latest \
                  docker-common \
                  docker-latest \
                  docker-latest-logrotate \
                  docker-logrotate \
                  docker-selinux \
                  docker-engine-selinux \
                  docker-engine

# Install latest docker via dnf package manager
# Set up the repository
sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf config-manager \
    --add-repo \
    https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/docker-ce.repo
# Install Docker Engine
sudo dnf install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

# Start Using Docker
# Start Docker
sudo systemctl start docker
# Start Docker As System Boot
sudo systemctl enable docker
# Test If Docker Works
sudo docker run hello-world

View Docs for more detail about how to install docker in ubuntu system.

Install qBittorrent-nox

Here is the docker-compose file, save it as qbt-docker-compose.yaml.

version: '3.9'
services:
  qbt:
    container_name: qbittorrent-nox
    image: qbittorrentofficial/qbittorrent-nox
    ports:
      # web ui port
      - 8080:8080/tcp
      # for bittorrent traffic
      - 6881:6881/tcp
      - 6881:6881/udp
    environment:
      - TZ=Asia/Shanghai
      - UMASK_SET=022
      - QBT_EULA=accept
      - QBT_VERSION=latest
      - QBT_WEBUI_PORT=8080
    tty: true
    stop_grace_period: 30m
    tmpfs:
      - /tmp
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config:rw
      - ./downloads:/downloads:rw

You can edit this docker-compose file if you want.

Start to test your qBittorrent-nox with bellow command:

docker-compose -f qbt-docker-compose.yaml up

Open your browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:8080, the default user is admin, password is adminadmin.

If everything goes right, use Ctrl-C to stop it. Run this command to make it running in detached mode:

docker-compose -f qbt-docker-compose.yaml up -d

Transfer

If you have qBittorrent-nox running in an old device, where have a lot of torrent files seeding, with multicategory classified, and you want it running in docker and transfer them into a new device. It is really a nightmare to add all of them back manually, so here is how you can transfer them without any misery.

Stop your old qBittorrent-nox service:

systemctl stop qbittorrent-nox.service

Copy all config file inside $HOME/.config and $HOME/.local, we will use them later on. The $HOME directory is the home of qBittorrent-nox user. For example, I run qBittorrent-nox in user qbittorrent-nox so the $HOME will be /home/qbittorrent-nox.

Copy all of your bt file into your new device. If you keep all of your bt file inside a Portable HDD or SSD, plug it in your new device and mount it properly.

Install docker and start a qBittorrent-nox service first like I said before.

docker-compose -f qbt-docker-compose.yaml up

After it runs correctly, stop it via Ctrl-C.

Copy all of the file inside $HOME/.config to config/qBittorrent/config.

Copy all of the file inside $HOME/.local to config/qBittorrent/data.

Edit config/qBittorrent/config/qBittorrent.conf, match all the port settings.

Make sure you have these config settings inside config/qBittorrent/config/qBittorrent.conf:

[LegalNotice]
Accepted=true

Edit the volumes to match your saved path.

volumes:
  - ./config:/config:rw
  - /path/to/your/hhd:/pt/saved/path:ro

You can use read-only to keep your hhd data safe.

Run qBittorrent-nox again, if nothing goes wrong, run qBittorrent-nox in detached mode:

docker-compose -f qbt-docker-compose.yaml up -d