uTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client, currently there is only command-line version of Utorrent for Ubuntu. uTorrent work as a web server in Linux. You can access uTorrent from your browser after you started uTorrent using command in Terminal.
Please run the below command to install the dependency library first.
Our uTorrent Server is ready. Enter the following command to start the server.
Install uTorrent Client on Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint
Please run the below command to install the dependency library first.
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386
Now Open a Terminal(Alt + Ctrl + T) and paste the following command to download the uTorrent server.
wget http://download.utorrent.com/linux/utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz
Then use the following command to move the file to /opt
sudo mv utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz /opt/
Now move to the opt directory to extract the tar file.
cd /opt/
sudo tar -xvf utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz
Then remove the source file.
sudo rm -rf utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz
Change the permission of the extracted folder.
sudo chmod 777 -R utorrent-server-v3_0/
Create a symbolic link so that you can run the torrent server from terminal.
sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/utserver /usr/bin/utserver
Our uTorrent Server is ready. Enter the following command to start the server.
utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/ &
Access the uTorrent Server
Open a browser and type:
http://localhost:8080/gui/
Type the User Name as admin and leave the password field as empty and click Ok.
If you want to avoid every time starting uTorrent via command line, create a startup application and enter the command in command field as follows.
