Howto install Wine,µTorrent,Native Tray Icon in Debian
Posted by Admin on September 26th, 2007
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Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.
µTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows with many features.
First of all we need to add a new repo for this you need to edit the sources.list file
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add this to the end of the file, save and quit:
deb http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian/ ./
deb-src http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian ./
Update the source list using the following command
# apt-get update
Now we will install Wine and Alltray
# apt-get install alltray wine
Download latest µTorrent from here
create a dir using the following command
#mkdir utorrent
go in to the utorrent directory
#cd utorrent
#wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.6.1/utorrent.exe
Get icon using the following command
#wget http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5093/utorrenteh8.png
Now we will create a menu entry for uTorrent, so su to root again:
# vi /usr/share/applications/utorrent.desktop
You should now have an empty file, copy and paste this (and replace “USERNAME” with your actual username:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=uTorrent
GenericName=BitTorrent Client
Icon=/home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png
Exec=alltray --icon /home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png wine /home/”USERNAME”/utorrent/utorrent.exe
Path=
Terminal=false
MimeType=
Categories=Application;Network;
Save the file and exit.
You need to provide the Exe path according to where you want to keep utorrent .exe file
To refresh gnome-panel, issue this command
killall gnome-panel
µTorrent should now be found in the “Applications—>Internet” menu.
September 27th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Why would someone install a Windows application such as uTorrent in linux? The ktorrent package is a suitable linux torrent application.
D.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:45 am
i agree with DOUGman, use of wine should only be encouraged when we don’t have any alternate package or if the alternate pacakage is to young.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I agree with you, but only if someone works exclusively on Linux. I, for example, still use windows more but would like to CONTINUE mu current downloads and seeds under Linux without lengthy and resource-heavy download-state check.
Oh, and using Azureus is not an option. I want something SMALL that works both on Linux and Win, be it through Wine or otherwise.
December 26th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Now, I using Ubuntu 8.10,
Can I use this way to install utorrent in my systems?
Neo Linux..