Last Updated on August 26, 2022 by Vikash Ekka
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| How to Install uTorrent in Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS |
Hi there! I hope you’re doing well. In today’s blog post, I will tell you how to install utorrents on Ubuntu operating system (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS). utorrent is a very good downloading software. With the help of utorrents you can download multiple files, videos, and audio files.
It is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data.
utorrent is available for:-
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux distro
How to Install uTorrent on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I have tested on both ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Step1. Download uTorrent for Ubuntu
Go to utorrent official website and download µTorrent Server for Ubuntu 13.04
For 64-Bit Architecture.
wget http://download.ap.bittorrent.com/track/beta/endpoint/utserver/os/linux-x64-ubuntu-13-04 -O utserver.tar.gz
wget http://download.ap.bittorrent.com/track/beta/endpoint/utserver/os/linux-i386-ubuntu-13-04 -O utserver.tar.gz
Open a terminal ( Ctrl + Alt + T ). Install the libraries for µTorrent.
sr@vetechno:~$ sudo apt-get update sr@vetechno:~$ sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev
Note:- If you got an error like E: Package ‘libssl1.0.0’ has no installation candidate
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| Install uTorrent on Ubuntu 18.04 |
Then run below command to fix the issue.
sr@vetechno:~$ sudo echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list sr@vetechno:~$ sudo apt update && apt-cache policy sr@vetechno:~$ libssl1.0.0sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev
Step3. Extract the tar.gz file
Once downloaded the utserver.tar.gz file, extract the file in to /opt directory using the following command in the terminal.
sr@vetechno:~$ sudo tar -zxvf utserver.tar.gz -C /opt/
Now we need to create symbolic link to execute the file.
sr@vetechno:~$ sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/utserver /usr/bin/utserver
Use the below command to start uTorrent server.
sr@vetechno:~$ utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/ -daemon
Open your favorite web browser and navigate it to the following URL.
http://your-ip-address:8080/gui
http://localhost:8080/gui
When you first time hit the URL, it will ask for password:-
Username: admin. Leave the password field empty.
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| How to Install uTorrent on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS |
How to Uninstall uTorrent on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Step1. To remove uTorrent, first stop the current uTorrent process.
sr@vetechno:~$ sudo pkill utserver
sr@vetechno:~$ sudo rm -r /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/
sr@vetechno:~$ sudo rm /usr/bin/utserver
Conclusion
Please let me know in the comment box if your are facing any issue while installing or running uTorrent server on localhost with port 8080.
Hi.
I have Ubuntu 20.04.
And i had problem with "libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev".
After two days of meditation) i fixed it by this link:
https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ruby-2-3-3-ubuntu.html
Add http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security to the sources.list file
sudo su
echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update && apt-cache policy libssl1.0.0
sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev
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