How can I change the cache directory?

[bbergeron0]

I want to manage qbittorent-nox as a daemon, and I want it to use /var/cache/qBittorrent instead of ~/.cache/qBittorrent. How would I do that?

[ozkutuk]

I have found myself looking for the same thing, and from what I can see it is not possible to configure the individual directories for cache, config etc. However, qbittorrent-nox provides the --profile flag which allows the user to specify a base directory within which the directories like cache, config, etc. are created (relevant code for the curious). Therefore, you can run the qbittorrent-nox like so:

qbittorrent-nox --profile=/var/lib

This is what I did within my systemd service. Still not as good as having the cache in /var/cache/qBittorrent, but at least the service doesn't try to write to ~/.cache anymore, but to /var/lib/qBittorrent/cache. Hope that helps.

[m000]

@bbergeron0 AFAIK, qBittorrent respects the XDG Base Directory Specification. Have you tried setting XDG_CACHE_HOME=/var/cache in your environment?