i followed all the instructions ...but after i created the launcher , whne i double click on the shortcut , it says-

There was an error launching the application.
Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" (Permission denied)

So, any suggestions of what do do to proceed ?

Regards
Viswanth

the error message

"There was an error launching the application.
Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" (Permission denied)"

This is received because when you go to create launcher (by right click on the desktop area and click "create launcher") you need to make sure that the command area says the following: wine "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe" and not just "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe"

The word wine with a space must come before "/home/viswan/utorrent/utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe"

that did the trick for me after i received the same error you did

I did that by this way

1. install wine
2. install utorrent with wine
2. click on link of needed torrent
4. open torrent file with -> chose application to open

is very easy, and its working very well !!!
enjoy

how do you install utorent with wine? if i did the first step does that mean my wines already installed? and step three is not working.it failed to save the user/bin/ stuff.

thanks for the help
i did all of the above but i cant get it to work.
i have the same problem as viswanath

Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/afrim/utorrent/utorrent.exe" (Permission denied

the problem is that utorrent-1.8-alpha-6838.upx.exe file is an installer not a standalone thats why it didnt work

if you download this (beacuse its a standalone), it will work fine
http://c3po_r2.extra.hu/utorrent/utorrent-161.exe

c3po

Hi there,

The utorrent starts I just cant make it to download the torrent files. How can I do that? Thank

Great post.

I was able to set this up and it was working fine until I removed the "system tray" icon from my top panel. I am using Ubuntu 7.10. Once I removed it from the panel, I tried to reinstall the program to get it back up there and was uable to do this.

Now, it have a "system tray" icon that shows up on my desktop instead. Also, it is not working as well.

How can I start over and get it working like it was before?

I guess you need to completely remove Wine from your system. Execute the following command in a terminal:

sudo dpkg -P wine

Then remove the hidden .wine folder from your home directory.

And after this, reinstall Wine!

#!/bin/sh
cd "/home/marque/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/uTorrent/"
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
var="`echo $1`"
wine "/home/marque/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/uTorrent/uTorrent.exe" "$var"
else
wine "/home/marque/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/uTorrent/uTorrent.exe"
fi

I got this to work with the self installer version 1.7.7
sorry for messing with your script

This is a very complicated and complex way of doing it.....
Heres my suggestion:D
1. go to terminal type: sudo apt-get wine Accept any questions that come.
2. go to utorrent.com and download it to your desktop
3. Right click the icon and select open with wine.
4. By this time, its already installed:P

"The utorrent starts I just cant make it to download the torrent files. How can I do that? Thank"

Can anyone explain this, i am having the same problem. I chose the option to make uTorrent my default app to download torrents, however it still uses Transmission

mu torrent working better with win than linux. use deluge .

Hey this worked me too
But while saving/downloading file thru torrent, I cant select fat32 drive
as my linux partion is just 4gb I cant save torrents more than 500mb
:(
what shuld I do??

This is really nice. If you like me dual-boot with Vista or probebly any other MS can syncronise the download processes. The only thing necesseray is that the .torrent file and download location is in order. So if you dual boot you might want to download to a partion that can be accessed from both your linux and windows.

Guys, everithings works perfectly, the mistake is inside the Step3:
If you llok the screen dump, they instruct you to place the shortcut on the utorrent.exe file while you have to select instead the script /usr/bin/utorrent...

Enjoy.

Perhaps because of the website formatting capability, I think the script has some characters missing, I have a modified version that works as intended:

#!/bin/sh
EXEC_DIR=~/utorrent
EXEC_NAME=utorrent.exe
if [ ! -e $EXEC_DIR/$EXEC_NAME ]
then
echo "Error: Can't find $EXEC_NAME in $EXEC_DIR."
exit 1
fi

if [ $# != 0 ]
then
arg=`echo $1 | sed 's/\//\\/g'`
arg="Z:$arg"
echo $arg
wine $EXEC_DIR/$EXEC_NAME "$arg"
else
wine $EXEC_DIR/$EXEC_NAME
fi


Also, user scripts like this one should not be in /usr/bin/ but in /usr/local/bin/

And then, of course, the Laucher should point to the script, not to the exe, not even with wine. Otherwise whatś the point in creating a script?

GR8 !!! i was using jdownloader for multiosses and now i can continue my torrents just same as windows on Ubuntu, thank you very much!!!

This was really great thank you - it was my first ever app under wine (apart from things that used it anyway like picasa). It seems to do just about everything. I had a few hiccoughs all down to my brain not working - thinking the home directory was /myname rather than /home/myname for example. Very satisfying. Thanks

Thank you very much, it took a while but it finally works !

im lost at step one. you want me to install wine?? whats wiine? is it the utorrent? and how do i open a console? and is the executable script is in the same console? is all of thiis going to be iin notepad or something? please help.

okay step one and two went well but step three it says saving failed and to check type location correctly. whats wrong with it?

Hi toeun,

please wait a few days until we will recreate this tutorial. I will notify you here when it's done!

Best regards.

As promised, the guide was re-edited from the start... I hope you will all manage to install uTorrent under Ubuntu/Linux very easily now :)

Enjoy!

Hi Guys,

Great tutorial.

Just have one question: Where do the torrents save once completed?

Thanks

Neil

Hi... Thanks!

Where you put theme, in the uTorrent's settings :)

Why not just use Transmission which is very simple/basic or Deluge which has many features and i personally think i just as good if not better thatn Utorrent, Deluge also includes blocklist plugin?
Evan

BTW: I like that theme you've got, I hope that's available in the next release.

Yes, it's the New Wave theme..... available in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Nice tutorial, but i prefer native Linux programs for torrents like Deluge, Transmission or Azureus. Deluge is the Best for Bit Torrent in Ubuntu

Works perfectly albeit it slows down my system. The directory in which the torrents can be saved can be adjusted within utorrent. I created a folder in linux and directed utorrent to download the files there with utorrent.

I followed these instructions and it is working fine, except I click to download a torrent, and Firefox downloads the file, but it does not open uTorrent. Please help me get this running.

i found a way that works:

install wine
install utorrent using wine
open utorrent and drag the torrent file into the torrent screen

I've used this and it works. One question though. When using uTorrent in Windows, if I double click on an avi file, it will open VLC media player. when using uTorrent in Ubuntu, I am not able to double click on an avi file and have VLC play the file. I need to open the file from the downloaded location. Is there a way around this? I'm hoping someone can help.

i've done everything about the wine windows app. installer and followed the instructions for installing the utorrent on my ubuntu. but after clicking on the install button nothing happens, and a dialog box arrives saying that "it seems like utorrent is already working but not responding. close all utorrent processes and try again"...what should i do about this?

Do you have utorrent running in your system tray area? It should be an icon there... right click on it and close it.

HELP!!! It Didnt work! i did everything exactly has you said a cuple of times... restarted the machine has well but everitime i click install Utorrent i get a message that says: "Seems like utorrent is already running, but not responding. please close all utorrent processes and try again" but there are no other processes runing! I Know I Just restarted my machine! what should I do?

I have the same problem as ashesh gaur and Samuel, I get the same error message. I am positive it is not running but still get this.

utorrent used to work fine until I upgraded to 9.04, now it wont start at all, even after deleting and downloading again, I still get this message. Anybody know how to fix this?

Exactly same problem as Samuel. Any suggestion? thanks

Same problem with version 1.8.3, I tried with 1.7.7 and it worked. Any suggestion to make work the latest version.Thanks.

i did up to step 2 but when i select wine windows programme lauder it says,
"it seems utorrent is already runing but not responding please close all utorrent process and try again"
why is that?
thanx

Same thing here.

same problem as sam. i restart then install wizard comes up. then "it seems utorent is already running but not responding please close all utorrent processes and ty again."

Hey mate. I tried using the 'open file with -> choose application' in ff and upon selecting uTorrent.exe it does open in utorrent but then an error comes up saying 'path not found'.

I'm guessing it has to do with the pathname forward/backward-slash conventions for unix and windows. When you add a torrent in wine, the location of the files to be downloaded is described using the windows convention (), but the torrent file I'm trying to add has pathname '/media/disk-1/downloads' and I think that's where things get mixed up. I reckon wine is trying to add the file but it has the forward slash pathname.

This is only a hypothesis though. So if you or anyone else could explain this or help me find a solution, I'd appreciate that very much :)

Same thing here. i restart then install wizard comes up. then "it seems utorent is already running but not responding please close all utorrent processes and ty again."

Worked just fine for me on Ubuntu 9.04 a.k.a. Jaunty but since i installed 9.10 i get the same annoyance "it seems utorent is already running but not responding please close all utorrent processes and ty again." and then i close them and restart, only to get the same message. i am using wine-1.0.1 and latest stable utorrent. The thing is i also tried some older version of utorrent and came up with the same results. So must be something in the wine config that doesn't recognize the setup has already finished when trying to start the .exe

Im also getting the "it seems utorent is already running but not responding please close all utorrent processes and ty again." message. Seems to be something to do with 9.10?

i ve got the same error, anyone can help??

"it seems utorent is already running but not responding please close all utorrent processes and ty again."