I can't get transmission to install

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I am very new to LInux/ raspiberry pi. I have installed OSMC on to my Rasberry Pi 2 model B. I had transmission installed but when I would try to change settings using “sudo nano /etc/transmission/settings.json” i would just get a blank page. I uninstalled transmission with the hopes that reinstalling it would correct this issue. Now I can’t reinstall Transmission. I have tried installing through the app store in OSMC and via SSH terminal. I get “error installing: armv7-transmission-app-omsc (2.8.4-11)”.

What should I do? Please respond to me like I know nothing.

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Did you perchance try and install Transmission via an alternative source (not the App Store first)? If so, what steps did you follow?

Sam

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Here is where the OSMC installer puts the settings file
/home/osmc/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

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I manage to get transmission to install but wiping my SD card and starting over from scratch. Now my problem is my SSH terminal is running crazy slow. What can I do to fix that?

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try also SSH from your Android mobile/tablet (VX Connectbot)
Slow terminal never experienced even when Pi was unresponsive to remote

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Hallo Sam

I have the same problem and yes I did install Transmission from a different source. I installed it whit a apt-get install transmission-daemon command and I removed it with apt-get remove transmission-daemon. Now I can’t install armv7-transmission-app-osmc. In terminal I get

Unpacking armv7-transmission-app-osmc (2.8.4-11) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/armv7-transmission-app-osmc_2.8.4-11_armhf.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/transmission/web/images/favicon.png', which is also in package transmission-common 2.84-0.2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Prekinjen cevovod)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/armv7-transmission-app-osmc_2.8.4-11_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem? I really wouldn’t like to make a fresh install of osmc because of this.

Thank you

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dpkg -l | grep transmission

apt-get remove --purge any packages listed

Then reinstall OSMC transmission with apt-get -f install

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Whoow that was fast! I’m trying it now… Thank you :slight_smile:

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Worked like a charm. Thank you again :slight_smile:

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Indeed, worked like a charm, i only signed up here just to say thanks to you for this tip