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uTorrent under Ubuntu in 3 Easy Steps

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March 21st, 2009, 10:42 GMT| By Mariu

These days, BitTorrent is the most popular P2P (peer-to-peer) file distribution protocol. Whether y to share some files or you just want to get your hands on the latest Linux distributions, then you m a BitTorrent client. There are many BitTorrent clients for Linux, starting with the old and classical BitTorrent (yes, just protocol) and ending with the brand new Deluge, and somewhere in the middle we can enumera popular BitTorrent clients like Azureus, Transmission or rTorrent, each one providing very int features and funct

On the other hand (and this is what we're gonna talk about today), if you have "Windows friends", you must have hea talking about that very tiny and light BitTorrent client called uTorrent, a BitTorrent client with impressive features, lik download speeds, intelligent configurable disk caching, trackerless support, etc. Now, you have Linux and that's a W application, what do you do? Very simple, follow the instructions

Editor's note: The following instruction assume that you have the latest version of the Linux operating system you our case, Step 1 Install

Go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager...

Search for wine...

Click on the little box in front of the wine entry and select the "Mark for Installation" option...

Click the "Mark" button when asked to install the required dependencies...

Click the "Apply" button... and again to confirm the installation...

Wait for the packages to be downloaded...

...and installed...

When Step Download Create

the

installation 2 uTorrent's a

is installer desktop

complete,

close Download

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proceed

to Execute

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file

in

your uTorrent

app

Right click on your desktop and select "Create Launcher..."...

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new

launcher

window,

fill

in

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fields

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Type: Name: Command: wine "/home/YOURUSERNAME/uTorrent.exe /NOINSTALL"

App u

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Replace

"YOURUSERNAME"

in

the

Command

field

above,

with

your

username

(e.g.

/home/

Choose a suitable icon, and click OK. Now all you have to do in order to enjoy uTorrent is to double click on the u shortcut on your desktop. Enjoy!

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Comment #1 by: Viswanath on 06 Dec 2007, 16:18 GMT i followed all the instructions ...but after i created the launcher , whne i double click on the shortcut , it saysThere was an error launching the application. Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" (Permission denied) So, any suggestions of what do do to proceed ? Regards Viswanth Comment #1.1 by: emjaykanfa on 26 Mar 2008, 17:04 GMT the error message "There was an error launching the application. Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" (Permission denied)"

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This is received because when you go to create launcher (by right click on the desktop area and click "create launcher") yo to make sure that the command area says the following: wine "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" a not just "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" The word wine with a space must come before "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" that did the trick for me after i received the same error you did Comment #1.2 by: NewUbuntuUser on 16 Sep 2010, 14:54 GMT im new to this linux system, but its easy lol.. 1. download utorrent 2. go to the folder where your downloaded files are saved 3. right click on utorrent.exe then choose Properties -- in here you will see where your file has been placed. mine is /home/usrname/Downloads/utorrent.exe and so i did

4. go to application>accessories>terminal type the following: wine /filepath/utorrent.exe -- filepath = the folders your file is located, if we base to mine it should be like this "wine /home/usrname/Downloads/utorrent.exe" DONE! on your desktop right click and create laucher. on command line type wine /filepath/ again. Goodluck!! Comment #1.3 by: edi on 29 Dec 2010, 22:24 GMT tnks newubunto user ;)

Comment #2 by: Andrei on 08 Dec 2007, 18:26 GMT I did that by this way 1. 2. 2. 4. install wine install utorrent with wine click on link of needed torrent open torrent file with -> chose application to open

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is very easy, and its working very well !!! enjoy Comment #2.1 by: mk3jetta on 17 Mar 2009, 20:35 GMT

how do you install utorent with wine? if i did the first step does that mean my wines already installed? and step three is no working.it failed to save the user/bin/ stuff.

Comment #3 by: affe on 10 Jan 2008, 11:48 GMT thanks for the help i did all of the above but i cant get it to work. i have the same problem as viswanath Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/afrim/utorrent/utorrent.exe" (Permission denied

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Comment #4 by: c3po on 11 Jan 2008, 09:19 GMT the problem is that utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe file is an installer not a standalone thats why it didnt work if you download this (beacuse its a standalone), it will work fine http://c3po_r2.extra.hu/utorrent/utorrent-161.exe c3po

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Comment #5 by: ata on 13 Jan 2008, 13:00 GMT Hi there, The utorrent starts I just cant make it to download the torrent files. How can I do that? Thank

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Comment #6 by: dznodes on 14 Feb 2008, 23:20 GMT

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Great post. I was able to set this up and it was working fine until I removed the "system tray" icon from my top panel. I am using Ubuntu 7.10. removed it from the panel, I tried to reinstall the program to get it back up there and was uable to do this. Now, it have a "system tray" icon that shows up on my desktop instead. Also, it is not working as well. How can I start over and get it working like it was before? Comment #6.1 by: marius.nestor on 15 Feb 2008, 05:54 GMT I guess you need to completely remove Wine from your system. Execute the following command in a terminal: sudo dpkg -P wine Then remove the hidden .wine folder from your home directory. And after this, reinstall Wine!

Comment #7 by: ogami on 31 Mar 2008, 19:42 GMT #!/bin/sh cd "/home/marque/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/uTorrent/" if [ "$1" != "" ]; then var="`echo $1`" wine "/home/marque/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/uTorrent/uTorrent.exe" "$var" else wine "/home/marque/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/uTorrent/uTorrent.exe" fi I got this to work with the self installer version 1.7.7 sorry for messing with your script

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Comment #8 by: Ansgar on 04 May 2008, 13:29 GMT This is a very complicated and complex way of doing it..... Heres my suggestion:D 1. go to terminal type: sudo apt-get wine Accept any questions that come. 2. go to utorrent.com and download it to your desktop 3. Right click the icon and select open with wine. 4. By this time, its already installed:P Comment #8.1 by: VAIBHAV on 27 Jan 2010, 23:21 GMT I AM UNABLE TO USE UTORRENT TO OPEN THROUGH WINE WHAT I DO

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Comment #9 by: sch on 27 May 2008, 08:06 GMT "The utorrent starts I just cant make it to download the torrent files. How can I do that? Thank"

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Can anyone explain this, i am having the same problem. I chose the option to make uTorrent my default app to download torrents, however it still uses Transmission Comment #9.1 by: abal on 19 Aug 2010, 11:29 GMT me too!!!

Comment #10 by: jamesjj on 30 Aug 2008, 17:42 GMT

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mu torrent working better with win than linux. use deluge .

Comment #11 by: hissam on 17 Oct 2008, 21:17 GMT Hey this worked me too But while saving/downloading file thru torrent, I cant select fat32 drive as my linux partion is just 4gb I cant save torrents more than 500mb :( what shuld I do??

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Comment #12 by: Timmy Lindblom on 11 Nov 2008, 16:20 GMT

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This is really nice. If you like me dual-boot with Vista or probebly any other MS can syncronise the download processes. The only thin necesseray is that the .torrent file and download location is in order. So if you dual boot you might want to download to a partion tha be accessed from both your linux and windows.

Comment #13 by: dga20081 on 06 Dec 2008, 13:23 GMT

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Guys, everithings works perfectly, the mistake is inside the Step3: If you llok the screen dump, they instruct you to place the shortcut on the utorrent.exe file while you have to select instead the scrip /usr/bin/utorrent... Enjoy.

Comment #14 by: Jacobo de Vera on 13 Dec 2008, 18:19 GMT

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Perhaps because of the website formatting capability, I think the script has some characters missing, I have a modified version that w as intended: #!/bin/sh EXEC_DIR=~/utorrent EXEC_NAME=utorrent.exe if [ ! -e $EXEC_DIR/$EXEC_NAME ] then echo "Error: Can't find $EXEC_NAME in $EXEC_DIR." exit 1 fi if [ $# != 0 ] then arg=`echo $1 | sed 's/\//\\/g'` arg="Z:$arg" echo $arg wine $EXEC_DIR/$EXEC_NAME "$arg" else wine $EXEC_DIR/$EXEC_NAME fi Also, user scripts like this one should not be in /usr/bin/ but in /usr/local/bin/

And then, of course, the Laucher should point to the script, not to the exe, not even with wine. Otherwise what the point in creating script?