How To Download Torrents on Your Chromebook
Ever wondered if you can run uTorrent on Chrome OS and download some torrents?
Well, it is possible, thanks to François Beaufort‘s work.
Here is how you can download torrents on Chrome OS. François created a µTorrent Chrome OS package and wrote a small document explaining you in details how to Run µTorrent Server on Google Chrome OS.
Notes:
- Default location for downloaded files and torrents files is your “Downloads” folder
- Press ctrl + c to stop utorrent server in Developer Shell
There, one more I wont switch to Chrome OS until I get.. question answered!
8 Responses to “How To Download Torrents on Your Chromebook”
No unzip on ChromeOS.
I’m guessing that’s why you replaced it with a .tar.gz.
hey, thanks for your comment, the post is updated
also: must run ./launcher.sh explicitly with “sh” command unless you remount without noexec flag.
launcher will prompt for sudo password if you’ve changed it.
The only issue now is that not all people will want to go into Developer Mode just to use it. I’d say that soon; they’ll figure a way to make it easier for us to download torrents without the need for switching our versions
or Google should do something inbuilt?
Wouldn’t this be more inline with the idea of a Chromebook if it stored all the data in Google Drive or Dropbox?
For what most people use torrents for this wouldn’t be a good place to store the files that your downloading..
Quick question here hoping someone can help me. Everything’s fine except when it comes to [bash ./launcher.sh].
I get a confirmation of uTorrent is now running…
Then I get :
./launcher.sh: line 16: ./utserver: No such file or directory
Help?!