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+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Ncurses BitTorrent client based on libTorrent"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.9.8
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/download/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/rtorrent-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9edf0304bf142215d3bc85a0771446b6a72d0ad8218efbe184b41e4c9c7542af
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libcurl, libtorrent, ncurses"