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Thanks, worked great

Worked perfectly, thank you very much.

Awesome...  Working great.

The information you provided is great but the overall situation is dumb. 

apt-get isn't the future, it's the now.

And "Vuse" needs to get with the now.

thanks a lot - worked great -NO typos !!!!!  (which cost me usually hours)

It's clear, thank you.

Or take the easy way and go to:
GetDeb.Net

hi there... nice howto... any chance it can be made to work on 64bit?

 Initializer::<init>::110,Main::<init>::84,Main::main::217,NativeMethodAccessorImpl::invoke0::-2,NativeMethodAccessorImpl::invoke::39,DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl::invoke::25,Method::invoke::597,MainExecutor$1::run::37,Thread::run::619
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM

  Ok, that was simple.... just download the 64bit version from sourceforge...

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php

There is another simple solution. Run the vuze update and copy the new *.jar file into $HOME/.azureus then edit `which vuze` and change -classpath /usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar to $HOME/.azureus/Azureus4.0.0.4.jar

Does this method keep your settings in Azureus? Or do you lose everything because of the uninstall?

Works great for me, and it keeps the settings, torrents and all other things

Forlong ..... your bloody marvelous mate .  Works like a charm . Saved     me countless hours of hair pulling ;)

I only got to: sudo tar -xvjf Vuze_*.tar.bz2 -C /opt/ which gives the error:

tar: Vuze_*.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I can say that i had problems in extracting to /opt but i managed to move the extracted folder there using "sudo mv"

I'm running ubuntu 8.10

Thanks! Great help, fast and easy.

argo

Still works flawlessly on 1/12/2009

Thank you for your interesting article

This worked amazingly well. Thanks!! :D

Geez, thanks. This is the only tutorial that actually helped me!

I get a msg saying opt/vuze is not writeble. How do I make it writeble?

Thanks. I had to use Nautilus to change folfer permitions. Looks ok now. Thanks again

Hey.  Thanks for the great HowTo.  I'm having some problems do.  Whenever I run Vuze from the Menu or from /opt/vuze/vuze, a warning comes up to tell me that Vuze closed untidily and then it crashes as soon as I move the mouse.  When I run sudo /opt/vuze/vuze from the terminal, it works fine.  I changed the ownership as you suggested above and it stills crashes.  Terminal gives this:

(SWT:25363): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width 250 and height -1
/opt/vuze/vuze: line 188: 25363 Aborted                 ${JAVA_PROGRAM_DIR}java "${JAVA_ARGS}" -cp "${CLASSPATH}" -Djava.library.path="${PROGRAM_DIR}" -Dazureus.install.path="${PROGRAM_DIR}" -Dazureus.script="$0" $JAVA_PROPS $START_CLASS "$@"

I'm using Kubuntu 8.10 if that's any help.

Fantastic HOWTO, been going round in circles with other variations. Nice one!

I made use of this again after a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04... thank you for the second time!

Thank you for posting this up, helped me get rid of the annoying update prompt with the repository version.

Thanks again!

Thanks for this man!

Started to get really confused about the updating problem, I thought that I was the problem :P Now it works perfect!

Peace

Hi,

Thanks for the great tip. My appreciation for the great work!!

i had no trouble installing and everything, but now when i use vuze it says it needs to restart, then it says it cant restart because it needs the plugin vzupdate. i cant find such plugin.. and i installed the beta vuze updater. so what do i do? cause it wont restart and i keep clicking on nthe icon and it never comes up. if i restart my computer it happens all over again. please help!!

Ive been a Linux user for all of 1 hour and your guide made this easy. Hadnt used the terminal before but followed instructions step by step and it works...great

Que bien hice todo y estuvo chido para mi funciono Gracias Forlong

Thank you so much for simplifying this for linux noobs like me. This failure to update was driving me nuts.

great thanks

wow thanks . great instructions

FYI, echo/cat | sudo tee is a quick and easy way to avoid launching a gui editor.

echo -e "#\!/bin/sh\nexec /opt/vuze/azureus \"\$@\"" | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/vuze

Thanks Forlnog for the nice how to.

just perfect thanx a lot ...

Sweet! Still works, thank you!

Worked like charm... Thank you very much.

This tutorial starts with the removal of the previous version of azureus … which could have been installed from the distro. The old azureus from the debian distro uses …

openjdk-6-jre + the many dependencies

When I do a fresh install of debian ... followed by the use of ...

default-jre + dependency *(as per this tutorial)

I get an error ... ie sun java required

But when I installed “openjdk-6-jre + the many dependencies” ... azureus/vuze started ... A-OK

--- See ... "How to install Vuze on Ubuntu & Debian" ... tutorial for a different but simular way to do this ... *(link below)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995327

Goodluck all ...

Thank you so much.

worked perfectly and for once the instructions were simple to follow. Most "guides" seem to leave out a key step or two thinking "any Linux guru should know to do that"  Well if I was one of them I would'nt need guides now would I.

Keep up the good work.

Everything worked like a charm. I always used to do a lot of tricky stuff to update my Vuze (actually I rarely updated anymore due to this) when it was so damn simple.

Cheers for the guide! And thank you!

thank you thank you thank you

in 10.04 go to ubuntu software center search for vuze and install

Those of you suggesting to go to synaptic to install are missing the point.  No matter what version of Ubuntu you use, the Vuze in the repositories is OUTDATED and also CAN NEVER BE UPDATED.  The whole point of this howto is to have a version of Vuze that is the latest and that is updated.  Also on 64 bit systems you end up with a native 64 bit Vuze this way; I *think* the version in the repos is 32 bit.  

One thing I ran into here that might help others:  the /opt/vuze/azureus script (hardlinked to /opt/vuze/vuze) contains the following line that is absent in the version from the repos (among other things): JAVA_ARGS="-Xmx128m"  This adds an argument to the java call that restricts Vuze to a maximum of 128MB of RAM. On my system that was way too little and caused massive CPU thrashing.  I had to take all references to JAVA_ARGS out of teh script to get rid of it because just changing that to "" or " " did not work (for some reason the script wouldn't go on to the next line and add the -cp (classpath) argument, etc if I did that.  I need to reread the scripto figure out why.  If you don't want the script overwritten on updates you would also need to change SCRIPT_NOT_CHANGED to 1 at the top of the script. Hope this helps.

Everytime I do a fresh install I open this page, please never take this out ; )

thanks a lot man! great!

This really helped me. Thanks!

Thanks for the help. Had a hell of a time before I found this.

Thanks much!

I owe ya one!

Thanks, it worked like charm.

 Sorry in advance if this is painfully noob.

 In the following line do I use $USER or MY username.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/vuze/

But when i installed vuze this way firefox cant recognize what the default program to open .torrent files with and when i tell linux (UbuntU 10.04) to open .torrent with vuze it works like it should but firefox wont "Open With" directly with vuze. Even tried  (Edit >  Preferences > applications) and adding the vuze startup script but nothing happens.

its not a huge step to save the torrent file first then run it but its the small things that matter :D

Deag^ having same issue.. no matter what cute uri or association fix i apply, vuze will not launch directly from firefox. and at the console i get

OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE  [/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/bin/java = ERROR:]
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://java.sun.com

but when i run it

$/opt/vuze/vuze

it works fine. as do any shortcuts i created.

I even tried a script,(that works in any place other than f.f.)

#!/bin/bash

# copies the current path to a variable for convenience at the command line
OLDPATH=$PWD
cd /opt/vuze
# dollarsign asterisk is "pass any params to ./vuze"
./vuze $*
#use the variable above to go back from where i came instead of vuze directory
cd $OLDPATH

exit 0
#exits cleanly.

no dice for either the magnet: uri setting or the bittorrent seed file association in ff 3.6.8

Slap me around and call me Susan!! I restarted firefox and went to a different (completely empty) profile.. it worked using the following method after following the aboooove instructions..:

open about:config

network.protocol-handler.app.magnet;/opt/vuze/vuze

network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet;false

network.protocol-handler.external.magnet;true

point various popup dialogs "what do i do with this file" to /opt/vuze/vuze

I then went back to my usual profile and ran through all of the above and ..

• It continued to work!!

[SHRUG] WtF?! [/SHRUG]

I have NO idea, and reconstructed what I did from the user-set variables in about:config, plus stuff from the below sources.

sources and background reading

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=308130

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#Lin...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=811037

and of course,

http://forlong.blogage.de/en/entries/2008/12/2/...

^_^

Thank you to ALL of these people, and to Deag^ and the rest of the commenters to the above!

Tom

Thanks heaps, the only one to get vuze working properly

Great work. Thank You!