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#1 2010-02-10 23:54:22

Corex
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[SOLVED] Firefox and uTorrent

Trying to figure out how to make Firefox 3.6 associate torrent files with uTorrent 2.0 (build 17920) through Wine 1.1.38, i'm looking for a script to handle this, googled all over last night but only found out-dated ones hmm Anyone that have one to share? wink

Last edited by Corex (2010-02-11 09:47:22)

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#2 2010-02-11 00:00:15

graysky
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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox and uTorrent

No idea... just curiously, why use utorrent?  Deluge is so much better and runs natively on your Arch box.


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#3 2010-02-11 00:00:47

wonder
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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox and uTorrent

why do you want utorrent??? there are plenty of torrent client better than utorrent in the linux world.


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#4 2010-02-11 09:46:05

Corex
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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox and uTorrent

Thanks for the tip on Deluge, when i browsed different torrents through pacman and i totally missed Deluge... Was just what i needed, thanks.

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#5 2010-02-11 17:25:40

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox and uTorrent

I use uTorrent 1.6.1 on the rare occasions I want to download something via torrents. I like the older version, I don't have a prejudice against windows apps or wine and most of all I don't want to have to waste over 170mb's of space just to run deluge.

Most of that is taken up by boost. Something I don't require for any other application on my laptop. uTorrent on the other hand takes up less than 0.5mb in my already existing wine folder.

For anyone else who has reason to use uTorrent..... Make the script below executable and drop it in your /usr/bin folder and it will serve as a launcher for uTorrent and works fine with firefox. (obviously change nixie to whatever directory)

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" ]; then
    torrent_file="Z:`echo $1 | sed 's/\//\\\/g'`"
    env WINEPREFIX="/home/nixie/.wine" wine \
        "C:\\Program Files\\uTorrent\\uTorrent.exe" "$torrent_file"
else
    env WINEPREFIX="/home/nixie/.wine" wine \
        "C:\\Program Files\\uTorrent\\uTorrent.exe"
fi

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