Setup Wine+uTorrent on Debian

[MattSpec]

This HOWTO will describe how to install uTorrent on your Debian Linux desktop using wine and how to get a more suitable tray icon using alltray.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

µTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows with many features.

First of all we need to add a new repo for this you need to edit the sources.list file

#vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this to the end of the file, save and quit:

deb http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian/ ./
deb-src http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian ./

Update the source list using the following command

# apt-get update

Now we will install Wine and Alltray

# apt-get install alltray wine

Download latest µTorrent from here

create a dir using the following command

#mkdir utorrent

go in to the utorrent directory

#cd utorrent

#wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.6.1/utorrent.exe

Get icon using the following command

#wget http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5093/utorrenteh8.png

Now we will create a menu entry for uTorrent, so su to root again:

# vi /usr/share/applications/utorrent.desktop

You should now have an empty file, copy and paste this (and replace “USERNAME” with your actual username:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=uTorrent
GenericName=BitTorrent Client
Icon=/home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png
Exec=alltray --icon /home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png wine /home/”USERNAME”/utorrent/utorrent.exe
Path=
Terminal=false
MimeType=
Categories=Application;Network;

Save the file and exit.

You need to provide the Exe path according to where you want to keep utorrent .exe file

To refresh gnome-panel, issue this command

killall gnome-panel

µTorrent should now be found in the “Applications—>Internet” menu.

[nixon]

great stuff my fav noob! :D:D:D thanks mate +rep

[violinraja]

nice info thanks

[oker1]

i really dont understand why on earth would anyone want to do this. there are plenty of other clients there (opensource!)

[imayez]

thanks

[Fish]

i really dont understand why on earth would anyone want to do this. there are plenty of other clients there (opensource!)

I think I posted something along the lines of this here already, so I would have to agree with that, why on earth wouldn't you just use rtorrent, ktorrent, azureus or something natively supported by linux.... rtorrent for one, is THE best client out there... just get used to it :D

[SLS]

thanks

[andey]

kool....
but im a still use deluge.lol

[ledoc]

good job with the tutorial, still I it's better to use a native clients for linux (like rtorrent, very nice lil program ;) ).

[w00tw00t]

I use utorrent under wine in Ubuntu, and it seemed a lot easier than that to set up. All I did was download the latest build of uTorrent for Windows and installed it under wine.

I still like uTorrent better than any native linux client, sorry open source purists!