Would it be better if qBittorrent contacted more trackers from the trackers list?

Trackers contact strategy is handled by libtorrent, not qBittorrent.

I do know that if you are using libtorrent v0.15 then more trackers will be contacted (behavior should be the same as in uTorrent). Unfortunately, with v0.14, libtorrent does not contact a lot of trackers.

Hi Christophe,
What's the easiest way for us (dumb/poor users) to check which 'libtorrent' version we have.are-using?

I am sure I could do something like ls and recursively look through all the directories, but there must be a much more elegant way of doing this.

FWIW I think that this is a GREAT app, Thanks for doing all this work. I hope it pays off well for you in the longer run.

HH

cat /usr/include/libtorrent/version.hpp | grep LIBTORRENT_VERSION

or

cat /usr/local/include/libtorrent/version.hpp | grep LIBTORRENT_VERSION

Just so you know, grep can take an input file argument.

So this would do the trick:

grep LIBTORRENT_VERSION /usr/{,local/}include/libtorrent/version.hpp

Though I just got:

grep: /usr/include/libtorrent/version.hpp: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/local/include/libtorrent/version.hpp: No such file or directory

Hehe...

This means that you did not install libtorrent headers (*-dev package).

Then I guess the solution is to open synaptic and search for libtorrent-rasterbar and see the package version.

Yes. I managed to achieve the same result as André Neves.
The suggestion to use synaptic does the job though.
<rant>The command line is all well & good for those who are doing this kind of thing all the time but for those of us who are doing something else most of the time, we need a more guided approach < /rant>

Now that I can see that I have "libtorrent-rasterbar2 0.19.9~svn.r4195..." my question becomes:
Should I up-grade/date this to 0.15 ?
How (using synaptic)?
Which repos should be added to make this possible?

Sorry for taking this away from QBT and pointing it down the linux tutorial path.