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Hello everyone, Lately I have spent a lot of time trying to install Azureus on my Debian system. This is a nightmare, as I am completely new to Linux and ...
  1. 05-22-2006 #1
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    Azureus On Debian Distro

    Hello everyone,

    Lately I have spent a lot of time trying to install Azureus on my Debian system.

    This is a nightmare, as I am completely new to Linux and Debian is not a very end-user friendly OS. But the reason for me using Debian is pure knowledge of servers, and knowledge of the way linux works. So I would like to stick with Debian and hopefully learn how to thouroughly use it some time in the future.

    But just for now can one of you Linux/Debian pros give me some pointers on getting Azureus to run please.

    Thanks In Advance!
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    IIRC, Azureus relies on you having Java installed, and I think that, since Java is proprietory software, it often isn't available to install from distro CDs and so forth. If indeed it is a Java problem, check out this page about Azureus and Java on the Azureus wiki, especially these two sections

    If you've already got a working Java installation, then post back with some more details of what goes wrong during installation (especially any error messages).


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    How are you trying to install it?

    I didn't have it installed so I just did apt-get install azureus and it installed and than I ran it with no problems.

    It did have to install some other packages:
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
    azureus libcommons-cli-java liblog4j1.2-java libseda-java libswt-gtk-3.1-java libswt-gtk-3.1-jni

    All of which installed with no problems.

    I have the newest verion of Sun's Java installed.

    java version "1.5.0_06"
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

    Perhaps Java isn't installed on your system or isnt installed correctly.
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    In short, the free java package in Debian Etch doesn't work very well (not fonctionnal) with Azureus. As the Azureus version from Debian Etch rely on this free java, well...

    So install java manualy from sun.java.com (using java-package):
    http://technowizah.com/2005/12/debia...suns-java.html

    Then use the Azureus binary package from Azureus site.

    For more details, see this similar thread:
    http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...t-working.html
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    Or you can just install Sun Java from unstable just make sure you have non-free.

    That's how I installed it and Azureus installed without a hitch.
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    Ok I now have Java and Azureus installed but how do I start Azureus up, as I am so use to double clicking an .exe... damn Windows world

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    If you took the binary package from Azureus site, then, once untared, you should have an "azureus" directory. The executable is called azureus, no extension.
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    Quote Originally Posted by InvisibleSniper
    Ok I now have Java and Azureus installed but how do I start Azureus up, as I am so use to double clicking an .exe... damn Windows world

    Thanks For Your Help Again
    Alt + F2 and type azureus and click run that's in Gnome don't know about other WMs
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