How ot install rtorrent/rutorrent in Centos 5 ?

You must have root access on the machine, and svn installed on the machine
install svn:

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yum install mod_dav_svn subversion

step 1:
To install libTorrent and rTorrent first we install the compiler and dependencies required

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yum install gcc gcc-c++ m4 make automake libtool pkgconfig perl openssl-devel ncurses-devel mod_ssl openssl-devel apache2 php php-cli screen

step 2:
Download XMLRPC-C, curl, libsigc++, libtorrent and rtorrent

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cd /tmp
svn checkout http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.19.7.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/2.2/libsigc++-2.2.4.tar.gz
wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.12.6.tar.gz
wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.8.6.tar.gz

step 3:
Extract curl, libsigc++, libtorrent and rtorrent

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tar -xvzf curl-7.19.7.tar.gz
tar -xvzf libsigc++-2.2.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf libtorrent-0.12.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf rtorrent-0.8.6.tar.gz

step 4:
Compile curl

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cd curl-7.19.7
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

step 5:
Compile libsigc++

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cd libsigc++-2.2.4
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

step 6:
Compile libtorrent

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export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
cd libtorrent-0.12.6
rm -f scripts/{libtool,lt*}.m4
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

step 7:
Compile XMLRPC-C

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cd xmlrpc-c
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

This installed xmlrpc-c-config to /usr/local/bin/xmlrpc-c-config

step 8:
Compile rtorrent

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cd rtorrent-0.8.6
rm -f scripts/{libtool,lt*}.m4
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-xmlrpc-c=/usr/local/bin/xmlrpc-c-config
make
make install
cd ~

step 9:
Download rtorrent sample configuration and rename it

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wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/export/1105/trunk/rtorrent/doc/rtorrent.rc
mv rtorrent.rc .rtorrent.rc

You have to modify the content of .rtorrent.rc file to configure the settings of rTorrent as you needed and place the file into your user directory.

make sure to add the line in .rtorrent.rc !

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scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000

step 10:
Get rutorrent (with the correct path ex: /var/www/vhosts/yourdomaine.com/httpdocs/   for plesk)

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cd /var/www/
svn co http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rutorrent

needed plugin for connecting rutorrent to rtorrent

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cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins
svn co http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/rpc

step 11 :
Start rtorrent

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screen rtorrent

we use screen because we have to keep rtorrent running after we close the terminal
Now you can open your new rutorrent seedbox  just go to http://myserverip/rutorrent

tested and work perfectly for me 

source: http://code.google.com/p/rutorrent/