

Now reboot your system to check if this works. Try running the executable before you reboot, if you get an error message “libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” then type in the terminal: Tell your system to run this script on startup: In our case, the CHDIR would be “/home/yourname/utorrent-server-v3_0” and the USER would be “yourname” Get the script here, and save it as /etc/init.d/utserverĭon’t forget to modify the CHDIR and NAME values in the script! The script below is the startup script you need to run utserver automatically on startup. There may be a newer version available since I wrote this guide, please check the utorrent website for this.Ĭheck the unpacked directory with the “ls” command, there should be a folder called “utorrent-server-v3_0”. Step 1 – get the uTorrent archive and unpack You also might want to check on the utorrent website for an updated version first.

The username used here is “yourname”, replace that with your own user name. Since it’s an old 1Ghz P4 work horse, I prefer to run things “headless”. Over the years I’ve tried several torrent clients on my Ubuntu server.
