Use Utorrent or any other windows application in Linux
There are many good bit torrent clients available for Linux such as Ktorrent, Azereus and Bitornado. But people who have recently switched to Linux may want to use Utorrent either because of its functionality or because they are familiar with it. I am going to show you how to do it using a program called WINE (Wine Is Not An Emulator), with WINE you can run a lot of Windows programs within Linux.
Now to install WINE you first need to add its repository to your sources list which is simple to do. First click on System
Now click on Administration then open the Synaptic Package Manager, once Synaptic window shows up click on settings and then click on Repositories. You will get a window similar to this:
Now click on third party software. You will then be presented with a window like this:
Click on Add and you will be prompted to enter the APT line which is:
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt
Now click on close and exit Synaptic. Now for Ubuntu to detect WINE from the new repository execute the following command from a terminal:
sudo apt-get update
After the Repositories are updated use this command to install WINE:
sudo apt-get install wine
Now WINE is installed but there is a problem, the theme that WINE uses by default looks very ugly, the WINE developers thought of this and that is why they added the functionality to install Windows themes in WINE.
Here is WINE before the theme has been applied:
And here it is after it was applied:
Now onto installing Utorrent, first you need to get the installer from the Utorrent website. Now after it is downloaded click the Utorrent icon on desktop to install it and while installing it remember to select to install an menu in the task bar so that you can easily access Utorrent, now that you have installed it open Utorrent by clicking the desktop icon and that’s it you are ready to use the most popular bittorrent client.
Here Is a screenshot of Utorrent running in Ubuntu:
Some people also wonder where WINE’s emulated C drive is? to navigate to that simply select for the hidden files to be shown and in your home folder will be a file called .wine this is WINE’s emulated C drive
you can install any windows application in Linux using the same method!
Very Nice!