How do I install utorrent by hand?

Question

So I'm new to Ubuntu, in fact I've only installed it yesterday. There are a few programs I want to install.. both of which are a .tar.gz and a .tar.bz2 file. When I double click on them, they just open in the archive manager...How do I install them?

EDIT: The programs I want to install are Katawa Shoujo and uTorrent.

http://www.katawa-shoujo.com/download.php
http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/complete?os=linux

Answer 1

Open terminal window, than type the following steps:

cd Downloads

wget http://download.utorrent.com/linux/utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz

Next, run the commands below to extract uTorrent files to the /opt directory.

sudo tar xvzf utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz -C /opt/

Then run the commands below to change the permission on uTorrent-server folder.

sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/

Next, run the commands below to link uTorrent server to the /user/local/bin directory.

sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/utserver /usr/local/bin/utserver

Finally, run the commands below to start uTorrent.

utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/

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

sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386

Now that uTorrent server is started, open your web browser (Firefox) and type the address below.

http://localhost:8080/gui/

The username is admin and leave the password field empty.

The first thing you will want to do is specify the download folder. To do that, click ‘Settings’ button.

Then scroll down to ‘Directories’ and specify the download folder.

Done ....

Hope this help.

Answer 2

There are a few programs I want to install.. both of which are a .tar.gz and a .tar.bz2 file. When I double click on them, they just open in the archive manager...How do I install them?

In Ubuntu, you usually install packages from the Software Center. You can also install another package manager called Synaptic which gives you access to a much wider variety of programs.

.tar.gz or .tar.bz2 "programs" are very often source code, which you must compile in order to get a usable program. I don't recommend you do this if you are new to Ubuntu.

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Sometimes, generic Linux programs (i.e. not for Ubuntu, but any flavor of Linux) are also distributed as archives. For your examples, you can simply click on Extract in Archive Manager, and extract them to your home directory. To run them, go to your Home Folder, double-click on the Program Folder, and click on the program. For uTorrent, that's utserver; you should be able to tell which one it is for the other one (I didn't download it because it's a large file).

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32-bit programs will NOT work on 64-bit Ubuntu by default. You need to do the following first:

• Open Terminal, with Ctrl-Alt-T
• Type sudo apt-get install ia32-libs -y
• Enter your password
• Wait for installation to complete, then type exit to quit the Terminal
• Now try running your programs.

Answer 3

Like explained before, some software is distributed in source code.

For this normally, you have to do:

• unpack the compressed file;

• Open a terminal window;

• Go to the folder you created when you uncompressed the file;

• chmod 755 configure;

• Run configure, ./configure;

• Check for errors or dependencies;

• run make;

• Check for errors or dependencies;

• Run make install;

• If you don't have any doubts of dependencies problems you can run make & make install;

• If you have dependencies problems is better to run make clean, to clear the previous failed installation;

This method named compile software from source.