µTorrent on Ubuntu [Linux]

µTorrent, or uTorrent is a freeware, ad-supported, proprietary BitTorrent client owned and developed by BitTorrent, Inc. With over 100 million users. It is the most widely used BitTorrent client.

µTorrent is used to download .torrent and magnet files (movies, games, songs, etc).
µTorrent is all platforms and is mostly used on windows pc. Setting up µTorrent on Ubuntu is a little bit tricky.
But don't worry, I am here to help you go through it and use µTorrent on your Ubuntu PC.

Steps to be Followed:

1 : Download latest µTorrent Server from here

Note: (You need to download uTorrent Server for 13.04, also works for Ubuntu 14.04)

2 :  Extract uTorrent Files

• Launch terminal and change directory to Downloads folder

cd Downloads/

• Extract uTorrent files to the /opt directory

• sudo tar xvzf utserver.tar.gz -C /opt/
  

3 : Set Permission

• Set permission on uTorrent-server folder

• sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/

4 : Set Symbolic Link

• Run the command to link uTorrent server to the /user/bin directory.

• sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/utserver /usr/bin/utserver
  

5 : Start µTorrent

utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/

Note: If you get an error about libssl.so package missing, run the command below to install it, then try starting it again.

sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386

6 : Log on to µTorrent

• Open Firefox and browse to the URL

• localhost:8080/gui

The username is admin and leave the password field empty