Hi,
wanting to install mutorrent,i googled around and found this website :http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb.It wanted me to install"wine"which i did as per the procedure they outlined.Now i'm stumped as i get the notification that wine is installed.How do i go about from here as iam unable to locte wine.Please help.Thanks in advance!Before that i tried to install "Torrentflux"from Synaptic manager but was unsuccessful.Any tips?

Which distro are you using? If your distro has an application management tool, it would be easiest to use that to install wine.
If wine is installed, you only need to double click on the exe file to get it running. Use "man wine" at the command line to read more.

dear Htnakirs,
My distro flavour is Ubuntu 8.10 edition and iam only 2 days into the linux environment.Should admit that iam slightly intimidated by "command line",GUI etc.By the way when i extracted Torrentflux from the terminal i was asked about "mySql"password--what is it?(i had to google to find out the linux lingo"distro"(anyway it was useful).NOW KINDLY GO AHEAD AND HELP ME WITH MUTORRENT AND WINE.

muTorrent is an efficient and lightweight bittorrent client for Windows, but I am not sure that you would get the same performance advantages when running it through a layer of emulation software like wine. Is there a reason to prefer that over a client that runs natively in Linux?

I would tend to agree with kaiser suse; most distributions of Linux come with a bittorrent client. For example, I am running Slackware 12.1, KDE 3.5, which comes with KTorrent. I think you're better off seeing if there is something that you can run natively.

I think that after successfully installing Wine on ubuntu you should be able to launch utorrent.exe by double-clicking on it. If it doesn't work, try to open utorrent.exe with wine - there should be gui menu (I believe it appears when you right-click on file) where you can chose what program to use for opening that software. If you are asked for the name of program in that menu, type "wine" (lowercase, without quotes). If you are asked to select that program in filesystem, it is either in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
Or you can launch utorrent from command line, by going to the directory with utorrent.exe and running "wine utorrent.exe" command from terminal emulator.


Wine is not an emulator. Although muTorrent might take more memory to run on Linux, it will be as fast as on Windows, if not faster. I've tried other clients and didn't find anything else that was good enough (please don't start suggesting bittorrent clients, I'm not interested, because uTorrent works fine for me.). Besides, OP asked how to launch uTorrent with wine, not "which bittorrent client to use".

I think that you have made a valid point referring to the original poster's query, but the fact still remains that it is unnecessary to run an Open Source implementation of the Windows API, merely to use a program that already exists in Linux. I guess it really is the users preference; convoluted as it may be.

I believe Ubuntu comes pre installed with Transmission. I used Transmission on my Mac for years and it is a pretty good client. Look under Applications -> Internet, it should be there.