UPDATE: Install Latest rTorrent and libTorrent on Centos 6

Since I made a post about installing rtorrent on centos 5.6, I thought that I'd do that for Centos 6 as well. Anyway, Centos 6 comes with many updated packages which makes it possible for us to install the latest libTorrent and rTorrent packages (0.12.9 and 0.8.9 at the time of writing) without having to mess with compilation tools and libraries on the system.

How To Install libTorrent and rTorrent on Centos 5.6

rTorrent is my favorite Bittorrent client when I'm on a linux machine. It's lightweight, fast and easy to use (while some people will disagree about that). For this setup, I'll be using a Xen VPS (100mb RAM and 10gb disk) with Centos 5.6 x86 installed. Although I am using Centos, this setup will work flawlessly on Fedora, Amazon (tested) and other Red Hat systems. So, as long as you have an rpm based distro, you can follow this guide.