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How to install uTorrent in OS X

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Update: uTorrent is now available for OS X without having to install Darwine (which is the method used in this tutorial).

Another name for this tutorial could be “how to install Windows programs in OS X without buying Crossover“. Or “how to use Darwine to install Windows programs in OS X”. But this tutorial will take you step-by-step through installing uTorrent (which is currently Windows-only) via Darwine – an OS X port of Wine.

Before your start:

  1. Install X11 in OS X, if it isn’t already
  2. Download Darwine
  3. Download uTorrent for Windows

Installing Darwine and uTorrent in OS X

  1. Unpack Darwine and drag the entire Darwine folder to your Applications. Then locate and double-click the WineHelper.app file in the Darwine folder.

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  2. A small Process Window will appear. You can minimize it to your Dock or just ignore it.

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  3. From the WineHelper menu, select Application -> Open…

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  4. Navigate to the utorrent.exe file, select it, and click Open.

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  5. A bunch of text will fly by in the Wine Log window. Ignore it.

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  6. And you’ll be prompted to install uTorrent. Leaving the shortcut boxes checked is fine, but you clearly won’t have a “start menu” shortcut when the installation is done (though you will have a desktop shortcut).

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  7. That’s it. uTorrent will launch and ask if you’d like it to be the default application for opening .torrent files.

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  8. Select your Connection speed etc, and click the Use Selected Settings button.

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  9. You should also notice a shortcut to uTorrent on your desktop.

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  10. And now you can use uTorrent in OS X :)

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  11. Darwine is also able to run many other Windows programs. Probably not as many as Crossover, but the price is right.

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By Ross McKillop – August 15, 2007

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  1. Jon says

    I turned off the macbook last night and retried this morning and got this in the wine log…

    fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L”Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls” (6.0.0.0)
    err:module:attach_process_dlls “gdi32.dll” failed to initialize, aborting
    err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”Z:\\Users\\Jon\\Desktop\\utorrent172.exe” failed, status c0000005

    June 27, 2009, 1:55 am

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