μTorrent is an efficient, feature rich BitTorrent freeware client. One of the most used lightweight BitTorrent Client, and its now available for Linux as μTorrent Server. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install uTorrent Server on Ubuntu 14.04. This should also work on Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10.
Install uTorrent Server 3.3
Step 1: Download latest uTorrent Server
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Step 2: Extract uTorrent Files
– Launch terminal and change directory to Downloads folder
cd Downloads/
– Extract uTorrent files to the /opt directory
sudo tar xvzf utserver.tar.gz -C /opt/
Step 3: Set Permission
– Set permission on uTorrent-server folder
sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/
Step 4: Set Symbolic link
– Run the command to link uTorrent server to the /user/bin directory.
sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/utserver /usr/bin/utserver
Step 5: Start uTorrent
utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/
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If you get an error about libssl.so package missing, run the command below to install it, then try starting it again.
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386
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Step 6: Log into uTorrent
– Open Firefox and browse to the URL
localhost:8080/gui
– The username is admin and leave the password field empty
