µTorrent ;) native

Cosmin · 2010-09-06 14:18:57

The famous torrent application µTorrent has released a native linux version:
http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/linux

Would be nice to have a package.

ngoonee · 2010-09-06 14:54:25

When we started our Idea Bank a few months ago, a Linux version was immediately the most requested feature, and has stayed #1 ever since. This morning, we are announcing a preview release of the first of two new products for Linux users. µTorrent Server, an alpha version available immediately for download here, is intended for users seeking a fast, commandline only BitTorrent client with remote web-based management. If you prefer a more traditional experience, rest assured we are working hard to build a full-featured GUI client.

Its a shell of a client, so far. Also its 32-bit only (64-bit 'may' work, I think they're just going to require multilib).

Good to see nonetheless. It ran flawlessly in wine, so no biggie.

Banton · 2010-09-06 18:36:33

I have made a PKGBUILD, but it doesn't work very well. utorrent doesn't take any arguments. it creates its session files in the dir you started utorrent and also looks for the configuration files there.
Didn't find a proper way in the config.
Don't have the time for now to look into this. I can upload it to AUR. Maybe someone finds a configuration option for this behaviour.

x33a · 2010-09-07 06:01:35

Wow, this is awesome for newcomers to linux. The first thing i missed when i switched to ubuntu was utorrent, and just for it's sake i installed wine. Now, i am an rtorrent guy, but when this gets a gui, it will be heavensent for users switching from windows.

cesura · 2010-09-07 06:10:14

Banton wrote:

I have made a PKGBUILD, but it doesn't work very well. utorrent doesn't take any arguments. it creates its session files in the dir you started utorrent and also looks for the configuration files there.
Didn't find a proper way in the config.
Don't have the time for now to look into this. I can upload it to AUR. Maybe someone finds a configuration option for this behaviour.

I'd be interested in packaging it if you haven't already.

SanskritFritz · 2010-09-07 06:20:21

Slightly offtopic, but what is so great about uTorrent, that, say, Transmission or KTorrent or any other clients cannot do?

Banton · 2010-09-07 07:33:42

itsbrad212 maybe you have more luck or knowledge

heres my PKGBUILD as far as I got

pkgname=utorrent-server
pkgver=3.0_21701
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="utorrent server version with webui for linux"
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://utorrent.com"
depends=('lib32-glibc' 'lib32-gcc-libs')
install=
source=('http://download.utorrent.com/linux/utorrent-server-3.0-21701.tar.gz'
    'utserver.conf')
md5sums=('43e2d8522e4342848b94eba382fc0c71'
         '1089efce37ba17aa72d04140c3c687cf')
build() {
  cd "$srcdir/bittorrent-server-v3_0"
  install -d -m755 $pkgdir/opt/utorrent
  install -m666 $startdir/utserver.conf $pkgdir/opt/utorrent
  install -m644 docs/uTorrent_Server.pdf $pkgdir/opt/utorrent
  install -m755 utserver $pkgdir/opt/utorrent
  unzip -d $pkgdir/opt/utorrent/webui webui.zip
}

I choose to install it to /opt because I thought it would create the files needed in the directory in which it is located. but turned out that it creates its files in the directory from where you start, i ended up with a messed up home directory. So I think there need to be a start up script which changes to the directory where the config file and the session files are located, before it starts utorrent.

chris-kun · 2010-09-07 07:50:38

I didn't realize someone else already got to this by the time I read the first post and made my package, but here it is: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40602

I've included a daemon and wrapper script which solves the config file problem.. all should be good. It has been awhile since I've packaged anything though so lemme now if anything's not following guidelines.

Cosmin · 2010-09-07 09:33:03

x33a wrote:

Wow, this is awesome for newcomers to linux. The first thing i missed when i switched to ubuntu was utorrent, and just for it's sake i installed wine. Now, i am an rtorrent guy, but when this gets a gui, it will be heavensent for users switching from windows.

for newcomers to linux will be the gui witch is not ready yet ... this server is not so nice for every day user, but I think it's a step forward.

Last edited by Cosmin (2010-09-09 19:56:29)

kpbotbot · 2010-09-07 09:47:31

I was a big µTorrent fan, and after switching to Linux, I've always wanted to bring it with me. Things changed, and now I PREFER Transmission. Although one feature that I miss from µTorrent is seeding without downloading. In transmission, things are different. If you pause the download, it will stop seeding the selected torrent. You can only seed without donwloading once a torrent is finished. But it's just a minor thing. No biggie Btw, this is just my personal opinion.

ehlo · 2010-09-07 16:20:15

SanskritFritz wrote:

Slightly offtopic, but what is so great about uTorrent, that, say, Transmission or KTorrent or any other clients cannot do?

This is my thought too. When I used Windows utorrent was really the only good client but there are many better alternatives on Linux

Last edited by ehlo (2010-09-07 16:21:01)

eDio · 2010-09-07 17:09:33

SanskritFritz wrote:

Slightly offtopic, but what is so great about uTorrent, that, say, Transmission or KTorrent or any other clients cannot do?

Disk writes and reads cache?

Skyalmian · 2010-09-07 17:45:46

uTorrent was something I did miss immediately, and used it on WINE for a little while, then found Deluge and thought it was a close enough match so as to be a good replacement. -_-

yejun · 2010-09-07 18:04:21

SanskritFritz wrote:

Slightly offtopic, but what is so great about uTorrent, that, say, Transmission or KTorrent or any other clients cannot do?

It's fast and small.

x33a · 2010-09-08 02:40:17

Cosmin wrote:

x33a wrote:
Now, i am an rtorrent guy, but when this gets a gui, it will be heavensent for users switching from windows.
for newcomers to linux will be the gui with is not ready yet ... this server is not so nice for every day user, but I think ist's a step forward.

I mentioned the gui

Cosmin · 2010-09-09 20:21:30

x33a wrote:

I mentioned the gui

yes you did, jut when I saw the news about this I was thinking about a gui application.

X-dark · 2010-10-24 18:31:04

Does somebody know how to drop privileges on start when started as a daemon ?

Seems to works fine on a 64 bits system with lib32-gcc-libs instead of gcc-libs.

evot · 2010-10-24 19:03:25

SanskritFritz wrote:

Slightly offtopic, but what is so great about uTorrent, that, say, Transmission or KTorrent or any other clients cannot do?

+1

Personally i feel more free when i use Ktorrent or Transmission.
Although i am not any kind of power user in this area.

But i agree that it's nice to see more Linux native programs.

Last edited by evot (2010-10-24 19:04:52)

Awebb · 2010-10-24 19:17:20

Skyalmian wrote:

uTorrent was something I did miss immediately, and used it on WINE for a little while, then found Deluge and thought it was a close enough match so as to be a good replacement. -_-

Same here. When I learned how to have rss downlaods in Deluge, I never looked back to utorrent. But anyway, very nice to see this happening.

X-dark · 2010-10-24 19:20:32

Interesting. I tried several times Transmission but was never satisfied. Maybe I'll try Deluge, then.

z0id · 2010-10-27 20:37:28

New alpha version out, with a nice changelog:

Changelog:

-- 2010-10-27: Version 3.0 alpha (build 22708)
- Added daemon argument which directs the server to run in its own
  process group
- Added usage argument which directs the server to display the set of
  valid command-line arguments before exiting - server also prints error
  and usage messages before exiting if it detects at least one
  unrecognized command-line argument
- Added settings finish_cmd and state_cmd to provide a way to invoke
  asynchronous processes for torrent lifecycle events
- The add torrent dialog in the web UI now allows the user to choose
  which download directory to use for the torrent being added
- Correct JSON output is now generated for the list-dirs action request
- The name of the directory created by extracting the product archive now
  includes utorrent instead of bittorrent
- Removed ul_slots_per_torrent setting since it no longer has a function
- Added ut_webui_dir setting in the configuration file, which specifies
  the directory containing the webui.zip archive or the unarchived files
  to be served for the web UI
- Added pidfile argument which permits the specification of a file to be
  created by the utserver process which will contain the ID of the
  utserver process
- Added logmask setting in the configuration file which permits logging
  to be configured (and subsequently modified as part of handling a
  hangup signal), and removed support for LOGMASK environment variable
- The server rereads the configuration file upon receipt of a hangup
  signal or when creating or moving a file named rcf.utmr in the
  dir_request directory - see the cautions in the user manual about
  sending a hangup signal when attempting to change the value of
  dir_request
- Added settings admin_name and admin_password to allow administrators to
  define initial non-default credentials for authenticating to the server
  via the HTTP interface
- Fixed documentation by changing filter_id to filter-id in one place

TheSaint · 2010-10-28 08:49:56

Some user, out there, can give a comparison with Ktorrent?
I don't see much a difference, but only if it uses its own protocol.

F

Emericn6k · 2010-10-28 09:24:58

TheSaint wrote:

Some user, out there, can give a comparison with Ktorrent?
I don't see much a difference, but only if it uses its own protocol.
F

Actually, Ktorrent has an implementation of the µTorrent protocol (search deep in the options, both protocols are usable at the same time).
However, I can't tell the difference between protocols.

Skyalmian · 2010-10-29 21:09:12

Awebb wrote:

Skyalmian wrote:
uTorrent was something I did miss immediately, and used it on WINE for a little while, then found Deluge and thought it was a close enough match so as to be a good replacement. -_-
Same here. When I learned how to have rss downloads in Deluge, I never looked back to utorrent. But anyway, very nice to see this happening.

I have noticed one difference. Deluge acts like there is only one tracker that has to have its HTTP/UDP pointers at 0/1 in the list, whereas uTorrent doesn't discriminate and pings all of them at once, and allows for editing all of them at once instead of pushing arrow buttons to move them around.

Oddly enough I'm back to using uTorrent in Wine, version 2.0.4. For some reason, without port forwarding (There's a second router in this house that the one I'm on is connected to, it's over 6 years old, and it's not mine to touch.), it runs network better than Deluge.

TheSaint · 2010-11-03 22:08:30

I don't feel any need to go for uTorrent, even worst on wine

Somebody would tell me what makes uTorrent better.

F

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