Hey everyone,
I’m trying to turn a Pi into an automated torrent box using couchpotato, sickrage and transmission, but it turns out I’m a massive noob.
Is there anyone out there that would be able to help me out (online or in person)?
current fails:
installing transmission (E: Package ‘transmission-daemon’ has no installation candidate)
fixing permissions for transmission (I managed to install transmission previously, but have taken a step backwards somehow)
Cheers,
-Alec
First frustration:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon
Reading package lists… 0%
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package transmission-daemon is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
transmission-cli
E: Package ‘transmission-daemon’ has no installation candidate
First:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
This will update your repos and then packages.
Then try again, but it looks like it is saying that the package has been replaced by transmission-cli so if not that, try:
apt-get install transmission-cliCheers Tom, but unfortunately the standard steps aren’t working for me. I think it may be a case that I’ve changed so many things that I’ll have to rebuild the image. Can’t figure out how to update the repos as apt-get update/upgrade aren’t working.
I’m just going round in circles:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package transmission-daemon is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
transmission-cli
E: Package ‘transmission-daemon’ has no installation candidate
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install transmission-cli
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package transmission-cli is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
transmission-daemon
E: Package ‘transmission-cli’ has no installation candidate
OK I manually rebuild /etc/apt/sources.list and it seems to be making progress…
and then:
Alec$ ssh pi@192.168.1.111
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
can’t ssh in anymore! god damn it.
I have a rasperry pi doing exactly what your trying to achieve but sounds like you have a load of other issues! Probably best to bring it to the space tomorrow evening is electronics evening and I’ll be there can help try and sort it out. In the mean time keep googling (everything I know about Linux is from Google) but if you can start from a fresh raspbian image it might make things easier 
Cheers Pip! I’ll come with fresh raspbian image tomorrow and learn from the pros.
FYI I’m looking to install
Transmission
Plex Media Server
CouchPotato
Sickrage
SAMBA
correcting permissions has proven to be my nemesis in the past, so hopefully I’ll get the hang of that.
Are you using Jessie?
yeh, Jessie
-Alec
I have no idea what sickrage is but sounds nasty!