uTorrent works under Wine

veek · 2006-03-27 19:57:37

Hey all, just wanted to let people know that uTorrent is working under Wine.
This may already be common knowledge, but I tried it earlier and I couldn't get any transfers going. Make sure you have port-forwarding set correctly if necessary. I just successfully finished downloading a torrent, so now I can officially abandon Azureus which has gotten too bloated imho. Anyone looking for a good bittorrent client in Linux can give uTorrent a shot.

By the way, one of the nice things you can do is automatically stop seeding once you're upload ratio is 1, something I quite like.

I'm adding this little script for anyone that's interested. It lets you pass
torrents to uTorrent from Firefox.

#!/bin/bash

read torrent << HERE
    $(echo "$1" | sed 's///\\/g')
HERE

wine /Path/to/uTorrent.exe "$torrent"

If you're wondering about the part before the call to wine, it's necessary because uTorrent (being a windows program) expects back slashes in the path to the .torrent file instead of forward slashes. That bit of code replaces "/" with "" in the path to the torrent passed to the script by Firefox.

To use the script:

1. copy the code to a text editor and modify it with the path to your copy of uTorrent.

2. save it as "utorrent.sh," and make it executable: chmod +x utorrent.sh.

3. In Firefox, the next time you click a torrent link, select "Open with" in the "What should Firefox do with this file?" box that pops up. Click on the drop down list and choose "Other" and find utorrent.sh. If you want you can also select "Do this automatically for files like this from now on."

4. After you hit OK uTorrent will open (if it's not already) and will be ready to download the torrent.

Gullible Jones · 2006-03-27 20:29:55

Umm, you don't need Wine to run uTorrent, there's a Linux version... :?

veek · 2006-03-27 20:48:08

What??? I thought it wasn't available. Sheesh all that effort for nothing :cry:

veek · 2006-03-27 20:51:22

Okay I just checked the FAQ on uTorrent's website:

Is there a Linux or Mac version?

Vurlix is no longer working on the OS X port, so none is currently in the works. A Linux and OSX port is still planned for the future.

So where do you get the Linux version? I didn't see a link on the main download site...

On the download page it says "For Windows 95 (Winsock2), 98/ME, NT/2000, XP and above."

Anonymo · 2006-03-28 15:06:55

Gullible Jones wrote:

Umm, you don't need Wine to run uTorrent, there's a Linux version... :?

"Whhhaaat?"

*cough* I mean "Where?"

Neuro · 2006-03-28 16:38:06

veek wrote:

I just successfully finished downloading a torrent, so now I can officially abandon Azureus which has gotten too bloated imho. Anyone looking for a good bittorrent client in Linux can give uTorrent a shot.

I don't know about you, but if I were downloading a huge torrent like 30GB I did lately (Top Gear ), I wouldn't risk having it corrupt by running it in an experimental environment. I mean there are many other really good torrent clients out there specially for POSIX systems. If you hate bloat and just want a fast client, use rtorrent. It's CLI, it's screen friendly etc.

hotsauce · 2006-03-28 17:32:19

veek wrote:

If you hate bloat and just want a fast client, use rtorrent. It's CLI, it's screen friendly etc.

I second that, don't see the need for anything else

Gullible Jones · 2006-03-28 20:02:45

Ah, so I was wrong... Lesson sixteen of internet usage, don't trust Wikipedia completely. I was referring to their comparison of BT clients because I can't reach the uTorrent website.

veek · 2006-03-29 17:21:48

Yea I've used rtorrent, but I guess I just like a GUI and all the pretty colors .

uTorrent meets all my needs, and I think it's quite a bit out of the experimental phase.

Also I wrote a little script that lets me pass torrents directly to uTorrent from Firefox. I'll add it to my original post.

tomk · 2006-03-29 17:44:01

The experimental environment is wine, not uTorrent, and I heartily agree with Neuro on that point.

veek · 2006-03-29 17:59:13

Ah I see what you mean about the experimental environment.

Well it's true that wine is an experimental environment, but I've already downloaded over a gig using uTorrent under wine without any hiccups. The way I see it, the worst thing that could happen is that the transfer would be interrupted and I'd have to resume it.

I don't see how wine would corrupt the data. If uTorrent doesn't corrupt data in windows I don't see why it would in wine.

Wine developers do regression testing to make sure that the parts of the windows API implemented under wine behave consistently from the time they're introduced to later releases.

I'll report back if I encounter any issues, though I really don't anticipate any.

scarecrow · 2006-03-29 19:57:32

http://digg.com/software/%C2%B5Torrent_works_with_WINE

Unless upload speeds of that software are improved under Wine, due to an unresolved bug (under windoze they are plain bad since version 1.4.0), I will stick to Azureus under both *nix and Windoze...

veek · 2006-03-29 20:11:14

I'm not sure what upload speeds you expect, but I just started seeding a torrent to test and I'm seeding between: 220 and 230 kB/s.

That is my max upload bandwidth so uTorrent doesn't seem to be limiting it.

I'm using uTorrent 1.5 (build 437).

Fackamato · 2006-03-31 13:06:38

Thank you very much for this, it's working great!

Fackamato · 2006-04-01 16:05:58

Tech-Man wrote:

Azureus is still better even though it's bloatware, as the UPnP works fine, whereas the UPnP in uTorrent doesnt work under wine.

I use fixed ports.

Tech-Man wrote:

and before anyone says use fixed ports, thats just one way to get traffic shaped by your ISP hence I use UPnP.
TM

uTorrent supports protocol encryption, so they can't see that the packets are torrent stuff.

veek · 2006-04-01 21:27:13

Hey Fackamato, no prob, glad you found it useful

scarecrow · 2006-04-02 21:19:09

With the 31/03/06 cvs utorrent works right out of the box (although hashing and start of the download is somewhat slow).

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