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Eray
Asked: 2011-07-22 09:14:28 +0800 CST

Installing μTorrent

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Hello i'm trying to install uTorrent to my Ubuntu 11.04

I'm downloading it from here . But it's a .tar.gz file. I'm untaring it with

tar -xzvf utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz

command. But there isn't any make file, etc. I can understood, how can i install it ?

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  1. Best Answer

    It's a tar file with all the files already in it (I had a peek inside the tar file).

    The command to start it looks like utserver inside ./utorrent-server-v3_0

    utserver: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped

    Also have a look at ./utorrent-server-v3_0/docs/ for the file uTorrent_Server.html.

    If you are looking for the client you need wine to run it. I would advice looking for another client. Both deluge and transmission are perfect for downloading torrents.

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  2. Utorrent is providing 32bit executable directly. So if you have 32bit Ubuntu installation then follow these steps.

    1. Go to extracted folder

    2. run utserver

      ./utserver

    3. Now go to browser and type http://localhost:8080

    You might need to configure few things. However, as the binary is 32bit, I could not run this lib on my 64bit OS setup.

    Follow this official discussion page for more detailed installation steps.

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  3. If you like utorrent in Windows and want the same experience in Ubuntu you better give up utorrent here (at least at its present stage). I also tried utorrent in Wine and it was unstable and heavy. The most utorrent-like experience in Ubuntu is through qBittorrent and Flush. See HERE.

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