UTorrent works under Wine

Question

Hey all, just wanted to let people know that uTorrent is working under Wine.
This may already be common knowledge, but I tried it earlier and I couldn't get any transfers going. Make sure you have port-forwarding set correctly if necessary. I just successfully finished downloading a torrent, so now I can officially abandon Azureus which has gotten too bloated imho. Anyone looking for a good bittorrent client in Linux can give uTorrent a shot.
By the way, one of the nice things you can do is automatically stop seeding once you're upload ratio is 1, something I quite like.
I'm adding this little script for anyone that's interested. It lets you pass
torrents to uTorrent from Firefox.
#!/bin/bash
read torrent << HERE
$(echo "$1" | sed 's///\\/g')
HERE
wine /Path/to/uTorrent.exe "$torrent"
If you're wondering about the part before the call to wine, it's necessary because uTorrent (being a windows program) expects back slashes in the path to the .torrent file instead of forward slashes. That bit of code replaces "/" with "" in the path to the torrent passed to the script by Firefox.
To use the script:
1. copy the code to a text editor and modify it with the path to your copy of uTorrent.
2. save it as "utorrent.sh," and make it executable: chmod +x utorrent.sh.
3. In Firefox, the next time you click a torrent link, select "Open with" in the "What should Firefox do with this file?" box that pops up. Click on the drop down list and choose "Other" and find utorrent.sh. If you want you can also select "Do this automatically for files like this from now on."
4. After you hit OK uTorrent will open (if it's not already) and will be ready to download the torrent.

Answer 1

Tech-Man wrote:Azureus is still better even though it's bloatware, as the UPnP works fine, whereas the UPnP in uTorrent doesnt work under wine.
I use fixed ports.
Tech-Man wrote:
and before anyone says use fixed ports, thats just one way to get traffic shaped by your ISP hence I use UPnP.
TM
uTorrent supports protocol encryption, so they can't see that the packets are torrent stuff.