Install Vuze on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
Here is new manual how to install Vuze (all versions) on Ubuntu 10.04 + . We need to install JRE (Java Runtime Environment) first. Becouse JRE from this Ubuntu version are in partner repositories we must first select the partner repositories and then install JRE. The process is very easy for all Ubuntu users.
Go to System/Administration/Software Sources and choose Other Software tab like on picture. Select http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner and click on close.
Reload the repositories or you can do that with terminal, just copy/paste this line (Ctrl+Shift+V – to paste in terminal):
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
- After JRE installation, download Vuze from Official Site or click here.
- Unpack it to the desktop.
- Go to your home folder and create new folder “.azureus” with dot in front.
- From Nautilus (window manager) View menu, choose “show hidden files”.
- Copy All files from Vuze folder on your desktop into newly created “.azureus” folder.
- You are almost ready. Now you need to add a program launcher to Applications menu. Go to System/Preferences/Main Menu. Then Choose Internet and click “New Item”. On the Create Launcher window choose Browse. Then on new Choose an Application window right click to choose Show Hidden Files. Go to your Home folder/.azureus and click on “vuze”.
- Next, you can try adding the icon with drag and drop. Personally, I have problems adding Vuze icon with drag and drop so you can add it manually as follows:
- Click on spiral icon and from the left Nautilus menu choose File System (Disk Icon)
- Next, from the right menu choose folders: home/YourName/.azureus/vuze.png and click on open. It will add vuze.png icon to the Launcher. Click Close and you are ready.
Go to Applications/Internet/Vuze to start your new installed application.
Tags | Howto, Installation, Linux, Software, Ubuntu
cool but utorrent is better sadly not made for linux but mmmm.. transmission is good also and how about other torrent programs?
Exact replicate of utorrent is qBITtorrent in linux.
You can install with
sudo apt-get install qbittorrent
Thanks, you really helped me, Vuze is a bitch sometimes.
hi well yet again i feel stupid i followed ur instructions to the t and when i click on my icon or try to start it from app/internet/vuse i get nothing….tried running it with the right lcik option both in and out of the treminal……im not having much luck with instaling this or my vid card driver even following intructions that should be impossible to mess up
Mike, you must add command to the launcher – so when you click on the Vuze icon the command will launch the app. Follow more closely steps 6 and 7 and the result after that must look like last picture:
http://www.detector-pro.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/add-vuze-icon.jpg
If there is any problems again, send us more details about it.
Viktor Ustijanoski
DetectorPRO editor
hey i cant install vuze its showing dat “could not execute child process is denied ” wat can i do pls reply??
Do you have root permissions on that computer or? I run the install process all over again, so if you do everything correctly – following these steps, there is no errors. Try to start Vuze manually after download. Go to Vuze folder and find the vuze – shell script – just “vuze” without extension and double click on it/choose RUN. If Vuze starts, that’s ok, you can complete our steps, but if not – you don’t have permissions to run vuze.
Hope this helps.
Viktor Ustijanoski
DetectorPRO Editor
then how will i be able to have a permission to run vuze… one more things, what do you mean by this? “If Vuze starts” because when i do click on “vuze” it only show some letters or characters or something… pls help install vuze..tnx..
same thing happened to me..what i did is i went to .azereus folder i made in the home folder then i click the icon vuze (without an extension),the launcher of the vuze will start then.now its working fine =)
So i believe i followed everything correctly….but im still running into some problems. Vuze did not show up under applications/internet it showed up on the main applications drop menu. when i click on it, all it does is flash on the screen (not displaying anything). what did i do wrong?
ok so i figured out what i did wrong with the internet section of the menu, got that fixed. but it will still not load when i click on. just getting the flash.
if it matters at all, when trying to get the jre installed. i do not have “lucid” i have “karmac”
If you need to install Vuze on 9.04, follow this DetectorPRO tutorial:
http://www.detector-pro.com/2009/12/how-to-install-vuze-43-and-newer-on.html
Viktor Ustijanoski
DetectorPRO editor
ive got 10.04 but for some reason its showing up at karmic. im looking into that some more.
got it too work. that was my problem! sorry, still new to linux.
Hi John, I have the exac same problem, could you say how how you fixed yours please? Thanks
Well John, could you perhaps share how you got it to run? Having the same problem. Thanks.
i run this in the terminal “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts”.. i got this “configuring sun -java6- jre” i got an optiono f “ok” but its just in text i cannot really click on it.. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marvin, that part of the installation it’s ok and JRE is installed on your system. Now, you must download Vuze from the official site and then unpack it in the folder – usually your home folder/downloads/vuze. Next, go to your folder from top menu: Places/Home Folder/Vuze and find vuze file, double click on that file and then choose “RUN” to see if you can run it. If everything is ok, you can continue with th steps described in the post.
Viktor Ustijanoski
DetectorPRO editor
I installed Vuze through the Ubuntu Software center and it runs fine, but I want to add it to my start up applications. I need to know where Vuze is located to browse for the command to add to the list. Can anyone help? Ubuntu 10.04.
I’ve gotten it to work by adding a launcher to my desktop and adding the short cut to the start up apps, but I don’t want it on my desktop and if I remove the icon the start up doesn’t work for obvious reasons.
Step 7 “click on “Vuze”" but what do you click on once youve opened the vuze folder?
Open the folder and drag and drop vuze.png into the launcher properties window. If you have problems adding the icon with drag and drop, follow the next steps.
Viktor Ustijanoski
DetectorPRO editor
it says we must write a commant to create the launcher i cant see it clearly in the screenshots.it says /home/…
On 6th step, after you choose Show Hidden Files, go to your Home folder/.azureus and click on “vuze”. That will make an app launcher. The next step will be to add icon or you can use it without icon if you want.
Viktor Ustijanoski
DetectorPRO editor
Great how-to. I was having trouble with the version currently available in the repos, and this enabled me to install the latest version 4.5.0.2. Thanks for posting!
Viktor Ustijanoski
Your the MAN! Thank you so much for helping me. I got tired of the slow moving Windows and install UBUNTU 10.4. Vuze was always my favorite p2p program, but I couldn’t get it to work on Ubuntu for a month. I almost fell off my chair when the program came back with results. YEAH!
In the debug_1.log I get this…
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM
What have I done wrong this time…? I got a 64-bit ubuntu installation.
Try installing first 64 bit SWT.
Sweet! Just downloaded http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.6-201006080911/swt-3.6-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip
unpacked, and replaced the swt.jar in the .azureus folder and vuze loaded just fine.
Thanks allot!
Wewt! Worked for me too! So frustrating to run the script and have nothing happen. Thanks Ratatoskr!
newbie to linux when i try to make a .azureus folder in home it says that one is already there
Next, open the folder .azureus i home and copy the downloaded content (all files + folders) into the folder.
Follow the post steps after that.
Thank you buddy
just keep up
we need your help in future also
I installed everything exactly like you said but it still wont run. not sure what the problem is but I changed the permissions on the vuze file and it created a new file named Vuse and then i got the “unable to execute” error message mentioned earlier. Any tips?
Have you try the solutions mentioned earlier? Can you give us more details?? Can you start vuze immediately after download?
I go to the main folder, click on vuze, then run, but nothing happens!
tried all this too, it wouldn’t work, I now have a lot of errors on my computer regarding ‘unmet dependencies’????
I don’t think the JRE installation worked OK??
I am a bit lost now as I think i did nore damage to ubuntu than good
please help.
You can install vuze from ubuntu software center. That’s the easiest way.
looks like JRE package is broken?? willl try instal agin
I installed vuze from software center when i try to find something it don’t work it only stay reloading
any sugestion
Vuze is booting and seems to be working correctly, but will not return any results. Any ideas?
I ran followed the instructions to the letter Twice, no dice. I have root and still can not get it to run.
Install it from ubuntu software center. That’s the easiest way.
Hey I used to be able to run vuze 4.6 in my 32 bits system (this was like 2 weeks ago), but I formated my PC and now I can’t remember what I did last time, I only know that it was something that had to do with JRE, even following the steps in this tutorial I can’t make it work.
Just follow the tutorial and you will install VUZE
That is what I was trying to say, I did follow this tutorial, and still can’t make vuze to work, everytime I try to run the program either from the newly created launcher or from within the app folder itself I just see like a short flash on the icons inside the folder but nothing else happens.
Like I said I was using vuze with ubuntu 10.10 until two weeks ago, only then I just decompressed the vuze files within the download folder and made the launcher to be related to that location but before that I had to do something with a Java repository and that’s what I can remember what it was.
Thanks anyway for trying to answer my question.
Got it!!! What I did is downloaded the vuze 4.6 version from official site, decompressed it to a folder called vuze (I did it inside the Download folder in ubuntu) then I rename the file called swt.jar to swt.jar.bak, after doing that I took the file inside this zip folder swt-3.6.1-gtk-linux-x86 (google it so you can download either the 64 or the 32 bits version) and copied it back to the vuze folder and therefore making a substitution of the original swt.jar file. Finally I just created a Launcher in my desktop.
This time I didn’t update the Java RE as explained in this tutorial, and didn’t even installed the vuze version from the ubuntu software center. I would recommend looking up for torrent templates for your preferred torrent sites.
Running ubuntu 10.10 32bits
i still didnt c the vuze app even aftr followinh the same tutorial….is it like the JRE should be installed only before installing vuze…i already runned JRE earlier……now am trying to install vuze …will it solve the purpose of installation!!!!!!!could any one help me pls…..
I get this message when i try to start vuze on ubuntu 10.04 x86 with java and everything uptodate (have downloaded the newest linux version)
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Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 64-bit SWT libraries on 32-bit JVM
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:194)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:174)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.(C.java:21)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Display.java:132)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.(SWTThread.java:84)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.createInstance(SWTThread.java:63)
at com.aelitis.azureus.ui.swt.Initializer.(Initializer.java:163)
… 12 more
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