Run uTorrent on Raspberry Pi and Any ARM device

In this post we will tell about how to run the popular torrent client uTorrent on Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 are based on ARM microprocessor which is not supported by uTorrent. But it is possible to run uTorrent on Raspberry Pi 2 using a virtual machine called ExaGear Desktop which allows us to run x86 apps on Raspberry Pi 2/3.

Below are simple instructions including how to run uTorrent on your RPi and make from your RPi uTorrent server.

uTorrent installation instruction

Install ExaGear Desktop

1. Download ExaGear Desktop archive with installation packages and license key. Open command-line Terminal and unpack downloaded archive using the following command:

$ tar -xvzpf exagear-desktop-rpi2.tar.gz

2. Install and activate ExaGear on your ARM device by running install-exagear.sh script in a directory with deb packages and one license key:

$ sudo ./install-exagear.sh

Launch guest x86 system

3. Enter the guest x86 system using the following command:

$ exagear

4. Now you are in x86 environment that can be checked by running ‘arch’ command:

$ archi686

5. It is recommended to update apt-get repositories on the first launch of the guest system:

$ sudo apt-get update

Install uTorrent

6. Download the latest uTorrent Server from here. You need to download uTorrent Server for Debian 32-bit.

7. Extract uTorrent Files to the /opt directory:

$ sudo tar xvzf utserver.tar.gz -C /opt/

8. Set permission on uTorrent Server folder:

$ sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/

9. Run the command to link uTorrent Server to the /user/bin directory:

$ sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/utserver /usr/bin/utserver

Run uTorrent

10. Start uTorrent Server:

$ utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/

Note: If you get an error about libssl.so package missing, run the command below to install it, then try starting uTorrent Server again:

$ sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386

11. Open Firefox and go to the URL: http://localhost:8080/gui. The username is admin and leave the password field empty.

Final notes

It is worth to note that with ExaGear Desktop you can run other x86 apps on Raspberry Pi 2. ExaGear also supports first generation of Raspberry Pi and another ARM-based devices such as Odroid, Banana Pi, Beagleboard, Cubox, Jetson, Cubieboard etc.

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