uTorrent.exe disappears when I Wine it.

[Naetholix]

Hey guys. I have a little issue that I hope I might solve here.

I really liked the uTorrent BitTorrent client that I used on windows and I found that I could Wine it on Ubuntu. I followed the steps presented on the link below:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/uTorr...ps-49037.shtml

The good news is that it works. Perfectly, in fact. I was able to run it, download some stuff; all is good.

Except that the second I execute the utorrent.exe in my /home/utorrent, the executable file disappears and I have to re-download it to run utorrent if I close the app.

Is there a reason for this mysterious disappearance and can I fix it from happening again?

Any input is appreciated.

[KenJackson]

Wow! I never heard of a self deleting application.

You could experiment by putting it in it's own directory that is read-only. I always have a directory name C:\bin on my fake C drive which is no my Windows PATH. So I will show the commands with that assumption. Modify as necessary.

mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/bin/readonly
cp -pv uTorrent.exe ~/.wine/drive_c/bin/readonly/
chmod -w ~/.wine/drive_c/bin/readonly
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/bin
ln -s readonly/uTorrent.exe

The ln -s command creates a symbolic link. That's optional, but it allows you to execute the command more easily if C:\bin is on your Windows PATH.