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Need assistance in installing μtorrent on Ubuntu OS 14.04. Not sure where to extract the files. File have been downloaded, need help with extracting the files.

araghuteja
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Avinash Mvrick
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There's no μTorrent version for Ubuntu 14.04; you may try to install the version for Ubuntu 13.04:

  1. Download the appropriate μTorrent Server for Ubuntu 13.04 version for your architecture (32-bit / 64-bit) from utorrent.com;
  2. A good place to install additional software is /opt; assuming that you downloaded the tarball in ~/Downloads, decompress / extract it in /opt: in a terminal, run sudo tar zxf ~/Downloads/utserver.tar.gz -C /opt;
  3. Set the permissions of /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3 to 0777 recursively, so that all the extractes files / folders are readable / writable / executable from everyone: in a terminal, run chmod -R 0777 /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3
  4. Place a symbolic link to /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/utorrent/utserver in /usr/bin: in a terminal, runsudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/utorrent/utserver /usr/bin/utserver;

To run it, just run utserver in a terminal; you may also want to add an entry to the Unity Dash to start it straight from the GUI.

kos
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  • i am going to try that, one explanation what does tar zxf do exactly? – Avinash Mvrick Aug 31 '15 at 07:34
  • @AvinashMvrick tar is a command used to extract .tar / .tar.gz / .tgz (and so on) archives. About zxf, those are 3 tar BSD-style options "compressed" toghether; z=decompress, x=extract, f=output to a file rather than stdout – kos Aug 31 '15 at 11:37
  • @AvinashMvrick Also after step 2, do the chmod step outlined in the linked duplicate: chmod -R 777 /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3, since those files should be readable / writable / executable from everyone – kos Aug 31 '15 at 12:12
  • works for me, able to launch gui now. – Avinash Mvrick Sep 08 '15 at 17:38