µTorrent is a closed source BitTorrent client owned by BitTorrent Inc, and It is the most widely used BitTorrent client next to Xunlei.
The µTorrent is designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as Vuze or BitComet and also it provides performance, stability, and support for older hardware and versions of operating system.
It is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
A µTorrent Server is available for Linux. Here is the step by step guide to setup µTorrent server on Fedora 16.
Open a terminal and switch to the root user.
[raj@geeksite~/]$ su -l
Download the Latest version of µTorrent server from the official website or simply enter the following command to download the current version (3.0 build 25053).
[root@geeksite~/]# wget http://download.utorrent.com/linux/utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file in to /opt directory
[root@geeksite~/]# tar -zxvf utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz -C /opt/
Give the permission to the extracted directory for running the uTorrent Server.
[root@geeksite~/]# chmod 777 /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/
Link uTorrent Server to /usr/bin/ directory.
[root@geeksite~/]# ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/utserver /usr/bin/utserver
Start uTorrent Server by executing the following command.
[root@geeksite~/]# utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/
If you get an error like below
utserver: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
SymLink the following.
[root@geeksite~/]# ln -s /usr/lib/libssl.so.10 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
You might get one more error.
utserver: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
SymLink the following.
[root@geeksite~/]# ln -s /lib/libcrypto.so.10 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
Navigate your web browser to the following address.
http://localhost:8080/gui
Username is admin and leave the password field empty.
Screen Shot of uTorrent running on Fedora 16.
That’s all.
