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How to install uTorrent in Linux Ubuntu 12.04

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uTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent client. While it’s easy to install and use in Windows and Mac, it’s a little bit difficult to have it installed & run on Linux, in this post I’m going to show you step by step to install and run uTorrent in Ubuntu 12.04

REQUIREMENTS

INSTALLATION

1. Download and save to your folder (e.g: Downloads), you will get a .tar.gz when download finished

2. Open Terminal (by menu or by using Ctrl + Alt + T ), then do the following commands

– Go to the Download folder

$ cd Downloads

– Copy the downloaded file to /opt

$ sudo cp utorrent-server-3.0-ubuntu-10.10-27079.tar.gz /opt

(Remember to check name of the file you download, for me it’s utorrent-server-3.0-ubuntu-10.10-27079.tar.gz)

– Go to the /opt folder

$ cd /opt

Now uncompress the file

$ sudo tar -zxf utorrent-server-3.0-ubuntu-10.10-27079.tar.gz

You will get a folder name called utorrent-server-v3_0

– Create a symbolic link (kind of a shortcut) so that you can run the torrent server from Terminal

$ sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/utserver /usr/bin/utserver

3. You are almost ready by now, Install the libssl0.9.8 library

$ sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8

4. Now start you utorrent server

$ utserver –settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0

RUN
uTorrent will be launched from any Web browser, open Firefox / Chrome / Opera and navigate to

http://localhost:8080/gui

with username is “admin” (withou double quote) and password is empty

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