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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 ?

Jjed
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Eray
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    The file you downloaded is a server version of uTorrent and does not look like it's the client. Are you sure you need this one? – Rinzwind Jul 21 '11 at 17:26
  • No actually i couldn't find client. i need client. – Eray Jul 21 '11 at 17:26
  • @Rinzwind I guess this is a default version. It does not GUI support. Instead it relies on web server component. So you access utorrent functionality via web browser using localhost and particular port. – Amey Jah Jul 21 '11 at 17:29
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    You can download the Windows uTorrent client and run it in Wine. It works 100% effectively under Wine. – Thomas Ward Jul 21 '11 at 17:41
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    Are you aware that Ubuntu comes with a bit torrent client installed by default? You can just open torrent files. You don't need to install anything. Just in case you didn't know. :) – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Jul 21 '11 at 19:01
  • There is also rtorrent.. which is way better than utorrent. – user606723 Jul 21 '11 at 19:17
  • related question -> http://askubuntu.com/questions/48546/list-of-gui-based-bittorrent-clients – hhlp Mar 09 '12 at 15:54
  • @user606723: rTorrent is lacking many modern client features. This is without regard to interface, just client capabilities. I've been really happy with transmission-cli, it's both modern and lightweight. – J. M. Becker Nov 17 '12 at 23:30

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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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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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  • Did you install the 32bit libraries, ia32-libs? You can install that on 64bit and run 32bit binaries – Thomas Ward Jul 21 '11 at 17:41
  • @The Evil Phoenix No I do not have these libs. I didn't know that you require these libs. I was under impression that 32bit libraries can run on 6bit OS as they 64bit OS have backward compatibility. I guess backward compatibility is provided via these special libs. – Amey Jah Jul 21 '11 at 18:03
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    Those libs are installed automatically in a 32bit system. In Windows, libs for 32bit and 64bit are installed with 64bit versions. In Linux, 64bit only installs 64bit libs, but installing ia32-libs gets you the 32bit libs (which are installed with teh 32bit version of Ubuntu) – Thomas Ward Jul 21 '11 at 18:04
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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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