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I have tried all the tutorials to install uTorrent, but I still can't get any of them to work. They are all identical. Basically, you get the .tar.gz file, unzip it to /opt/, mark it as executable, link it to /usr/bin/utserver, install libssl0.9.8, and run it.

I've done all this, but here's what I get:

utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/
bash: /usr/sbin/utserver: No such file or directory

So, I tried this:

sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/utserver /usr/sbin/utserver
ln: failed to create symbolic link `/usr/sbin/utserver': File exists

So, the utserver command says that the directory/file doesn't exist, but the ln command says it does. What's the problem? (I've already tried rebooting. For a while after a reboot, the command utserver doesn't return any errors; it just exits.)

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The last time i received a "No such file or directory" error for an executable which is obviously there, the problem was an architecture mismatch, e.g. 64-bit system with a 32-bit executable which depends on missing 32-bit libraries. I don't know an easy step-by-step solution, but maybe this puts you on the right track... – marcus Oct 10 '12 at 0:35
This may also not be the answer you're looking for, but have you tried deluge? The interface is almost an exact copy of the utorrent interface. – Brendan Abel Oct 10 '12 at 6:03
@marcus Ah-ha, turns out I'd made some rather noobish mistakes along the way; fixed it by adding the -f flag. – JamesTheAwesomeDude Dec 27 '12 at 2:17
Unfortunately, the newer versions of Transmission are banned on some private torrent sites - the new version of Transmission that Canonical includes in the Ubuntu 12.x distributions misreport statistics to the tracker. – Josh Mar 19 at 18:56

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uTorrent isn't designed for Linux OS from what I've read either that or it isn't well-supported/simple to install, however, you can import it using wine. If you haven't got wine you can install it by copying and pasting the following commands into terminal:

sudo apt-get install wine
wget http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/complete/os/windows

Then go to /home/username/ and click on the executable windows file and open with wine. Honestly, however, since wine has a tendency to use a fair amount of RAM I'd just stick with Transmission.

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Okay, thank you. I decided to give Transmission a shot, and it turns out that that one's pretty good. (Transmission is the default/included BitTorrent client for Ubuntu.) – JamesTheAwesomeDude Oct 11 '12 at 14:47
Yeah I know it's the default, most default programs on Ubuntu are the best ones for the job, with the exception of rhythmbox and Firefox -- I prefer VLC and Chromium/Google Chrome respectively. – Brenton Horne Oct 11 '12 at 20:45
qBittorrent is an even better client server from what I can tell. It received more positive feedback in the software centre. – Brenton Horne Nov 9 '12 at 9:38
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This could also be a problem attempting to run 32bit executable on 64bit architecture.

Try installing ia32-libs

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

This will install the 32bit libraries and hopefully allow you to run the executable.

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