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I followed these instructions successfully several months ago — main reason was to make uTorrent the default torrent app in firefox. It worked great (although I may have had to do some other steps that I now do not recall — I really should write these things down!). That was with FireFox 3.0.13.

Unfortunately it is now broken with the new FireFox 3.5.

Either FireFox 3.5 has failed to import something from 3.0.13, or it is failing to read the Gnome mimetypes in the same way.

I cannot remember if I had to do anything extra to make Firefox find the app or recognize it as a default.

One small thing I did have to do differently from btmorex’ instructions was to edit (or create?) the file: ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list instead of ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list. (maybe this has something to do with the version of ubuntu — I’m currently using 9.04 and I believe I was running 8.1 when I first did this — in both cases it was “mimeapps.list” not “defaults.list”, and it worked).

Anyone have any thoughts about what I need to do to make FireFox 3.5 see uTorrent as an app for bittorrent, other than the above excellen instructions?

Thanks!

I just noticed that in the code boxes, in some places you actually have the greek “micro” symbol and not just a “u”. I checked with a hex editor and this is apparently a two-byte code: C2 B5 (hex).

I did the whole thing cut & paste with no problem. And now notice that gnome file browser and gedit both have no problem displaying the greek letter. The linux filesystem obviously has no problem with it in filenames.

But I am curious: how do you enter these manually in the first place?

1. make sure the directory name for where you put your uTorrent.exe file is correct. (i.e. /home/doctorme/Desktop/uTorrent/uTorrent.exe)
2. make sure that your launcher goes to the right place. (right click on the launcher, hit “Properties”, right next to where it says command hit the “Browse” button. Now browse down to the .exe file for uTorrent)
3. You may open up that shell script file and replace the line that says env WINEPREFIX=”/home/avery/.wine” wine \
“C:\\Program Files\\uTorrent\\uTorrent.exe”

with something more like: wine /home/doctorme/Desktop/uTorrent/utorrent
or whatever your path happens to be

4. check your “~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files” directory for a file named uTorrent. If there’s nothing there then you probably didn’t “install” uTorrent to the “C:” drive when you ran it for the first time. An easy fix is to make a symbolic link to where uTorrent.exe or the utrorrent launcher script is. For example:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
ln uTorrent ~/Desktop/uTorrent/utorrent

http://hekta.org/~chriswil/blog/index.php/blog/show/Guide%3A-%C2%B5Torrent-som-standard-torrent-behandler.html

Worked like a charm