μTorrent is a freeware and a closed source BitTorrent Client. One of the most used lightweight BitTorrent Client, Now it is available for Linux as μTorrent Server. You can download the tar file from utorrent.com or Open a Terminal and use the following command to download.
For x32
root@vps:~# wget http://download.utorrent.com/linux/utorrent-server-3.0-ubuntu-10.10-27079.tar.gz
For x64
root@vps:~# wget http://download.utorrent.com/linux/utorrent-server-3.0-ubuntu-10.10-27079.x64.tar.gz
After downloading the tar file, move to the file to /opt directory
root@vps:~# mv utorrent-server-3.0-ubuntu-10.10-27079.tar.gz /opt/
Change to /opt and extract downloaded file
root@vps:~# cd /opt/ root@vps:/opt# tar -zxvf utorrent-server-3.0-ubuntu-10.10-27079.tar.gz
Change permission
root@vps:/opt# chmod -R 777 utorrent-server-v3_0/
Create a symbolic link so that you can run the torrent server from terminal.
root@vps:~# ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/utserver /usr/bin/utserver
Start the torrent server by using the following command in terminal.
root@vps:/# utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/
If you get this error utserver: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, you can execute below command to install required libssl
root@vps:/# apt-get install libssl0.9.8
Open a browser and type the following line to access μTorrent Server webui
http://serverip:8080/gui/
Default username is admin with blank password.
